Chauncey L. Knapp

Chauncey Langdon Knapp ( born February 26, 1809 in Berlin, Vermont, † May 31, 1898 in Lowell, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1859 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Chauncey Knapp attended the public schools of his home. He then completed an apprenticeship in the printing trade. In the following years he worked in the newspaper business in Montpelier. He was co-owner and editor of the State Journal. He was also politically active. Between 1836 and 1849 he was managing as Secretary of State official of the state government of Vermont. Knapp was a staunch opponent of slavery. Politically, he was successively a member of the Free Soil Party, the American Party and the Republican Party, founded in 1854. He moved to Lowell in Massachusetts, where he also worked in the newspaper industry. In 1851 he was secretary to the Senate from Massachusetts.

In the congressional elections of 1854 Knapp was in the eighth election district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Tappan Wentworth on March 4, 1855. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1859 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events leading up to the Civil War. Between 1859 and 1882, Chauncey Knapp published the newspaper " Lowell Daily Citizen ". He died on 31 May 1898 in Lowell, where he was also buried.