Daniel Chipman

Daniel Chipman ( born October 22, 1765 in Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, † April 23, 1850 in Ripton, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1815 and 1816 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Daniel Chipman was the younger brother of Nathaniel Chipman, who was sitting 1797-1803 for Vermont in the U.S. Senate. The older Chipman attended to 1788 Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he practiced 1790-1794 in Rutland (Vermont ) in his new profession.

Between 1793 and 1850 he was a delegate to a total of five meetings to revise the constitution of Vermont. In 1794 he moved to Middlebury. Politically, he was a member of the Federalist Party, founded by Alexander Hamilton. From 1798 to 1808 and from 1812 to 1814 and the years 1818 and 1821 Chipman was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Vermont. Between 1813 and 1814 he served as President of this chamber. He also taught 1806-1818 the trade law at Middlebury College. In 1808, Chipman was a member of the consulting staff of the Governor of Vermont.

1814 Chipman was in the first district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1815 the successor of William Czar Bradley. Chipman exercised its mandate in Congress until his resignation on 5 May 1816. In 1824 he became clerk ( Court reporter ) to a court in Vermont. In 1828 he moved to Ripton, where he practiced as a lawyer again. He also dealt with literary matters. Daniel Chipman died in April 1850 in Ripton, and was buried in Middlebury.

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