Dudley Chase

Dudley Chase ( born December 30, 1771 in Cornish, New Hampshire, † February 23, 1846 in Randolph, Vermont) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Vermont in the U.S. Senate.

After attending the public schools Chase made ​​in 1791 graduated from Dartmouth College. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1793 and commenced practice as a lawyer in Randolph. From 1803 to 1812 he was district attorney of Orange County.

In 1805, Chase was elected to the House of Representatives from Vermont, where he remained until 1812; in 1808 he was going to the Speaker of the Parliament chamber. In the years 1814 and 1822 he was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in each of the state. On 4 March 1813, he eventually moved as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party in the U.S. Senate, where he remained until his resignation on November 3, 1817. During this time, he was, among other things before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Chase resigned to become Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court. He held until 1821 this office; after he was 1823-1824 again deputy in the House of Representatives of his state, before he returned to the Senate in Washington on March 4, 1825. This time he held there until March 3, 1831 the interests of the National Republican Party. After his retirement from politics, he devoted himself to agriculture.

Dudley Chase was the uncle of Salmon P. Chase, who later became U.S. Treasury Secretary and Chief Justice. Another nephew, who was named after him Dudley Chase Denison, sat from 1875 to 1879 for Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.