Chauncey Langdon

Chauncey Langdon ( born November 8, 1763 in Farmington, Connecticut; † July 23, 1830 in Castleton, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1815 and 1817 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Chauncey Langdon enjoyed a good primary education and studied until 1787 at the former Yale College, now Yale University. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in his new profession from 1787 in Castleton. In the meantime, he moved his practice and to Windsor. Then he returned to Castleton.

Between 1792 and 1797 he was an administrative assistant at a Probate Court and from 1798 to 1799 he was judge there. Langdon was a member of the Federalist Party, founded by Alexander Hamilton. In 1808 he was State Council (State Councilor ). Between 1813 and 1822 he was several times intermittently, Member of the House of Representatives from Vermont. Since 1811 until his death in 1830, Langdon was curator of Middlebury College.

1814 Langdon was in the third district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1815 the successor of James Fisk. Since he resigned in the following midterm elections in 1816 in a bid again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1817. After the end of his time in Congress Langdon was until 1822 temporarily delegate in the House of Representatives from Vermont. In 1823 he was elected again to the State Council. This office he held until his death in 1830.