Dudley Chase Denison

Dudley Chase Denison (* September 13, 1819 in Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont, † February 10, 1905 ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1879 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Dudley Denison was a nephew of Dudley Chase (1771-1846), who represented 1813-1819 and 1825-1831 the State of Vermont in the U.S. Senate. Salmon P. Chase (1808-1873), a later U.S. Senator, Minister of Finance and Chief Justice, was a cousin of Dudley Denison.

Denison attended the Royalton Academy and then studied until 1840 at the University of Vermont in Burlington. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1845 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Royalton. From 1853 to 1854 he was a member of the Senate of Vermont and 1858-1860 he worked as a prosecutor. After that, he was a deputy in the 1861-1863 House of Representatives from Vermont. He was then Attorney for the District of Vermont. Served in this office Denison 1865-1869.

In the congressional elections of 1874, he was elected as a candidate of the independent Republican in the second district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1875 on the succession of Luke P. Poland. In the elections of 1876 Denison was confirmed as a regular candidate of the Republican Party in his office. He was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1879 two legislative sessions. In 1878, Denison gave up another candidacy. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. Politically, he has had no other higher offices more. Dudley Denison died in February 1905 in his birthplace Royalton and was also buried there.