Samuel C. Crafts

Samuel Chandler Crafts ( born October 6, 1768 in Woodstock, Windham County, Connecticut, † November 19, 1853 in Craftsbury, Vermont ) was an American politician and from 1828 to 1831 governor of Vermont. He also represented this state in both chambers of Congress.

Early years and political rise

Samuel Crafts visited until 1790, the Harvard University. In 1791 he moved with his father to Vermont, where he founded the town of Craftsbury. In this city, Samuel Crafts worked in addition to his other activities from 1799 to 1829 as town clerk ( Town Clerk ).

In 1793, Samuel Crafts delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of Vermont. Between 1796 and 1805 he was intermittently deputy in the House of Representatives from Vermont. Back then, Crafts was also a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. After its dissolution in the 1820s, he joined only at the National Republican Party and the Whig Party. From 1796 to 1815 he was also executor (Register of Probate ). In the years 1800-1810 and 1825-1828 he was an Associate Judge of the District Court in Orleans County. Between 4 March 1817 and 3 March 1825, he completed three parliamentary terms as a deputy in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Vermont Governor and U.S. Senator

In 1828 Crafts was elected governor of his state. This post he held between October 1828 and October 18, 1831 10. As Governor, he sat down unsuccessfully for the abolition of imprisonment for a debtor. In the time in Vermont hotly debated question about the Freemasonry Crafts spoke out against this movement. In 1829 Crafts was also president of a commission to revise the State Constitution. After his governorship, he was employed 1836-1839 in the administration of Orleans County. Following the resignation of U.S. Senator Samuel Prentiss Crafts was determined to succeed him as a Class 3 Senator. In the U.S. Senate, he finished between April 1842 and March 3, 1843 23, the term of office of his predecessor. Then, his seat went to William Upham.

Further CV

After the end of his governorship itself Crafts withdrew from politics. He spent his remaining years on his farm in Craftsbury. There he is also deceased in November 1853. With his wife Eunice Todd Beardsley Samuel Crafts had two children. It is worth mentioning a scientific expedition, the Crafts in 1802 undertook along the Mississippi, where he studied the botany of the area.