Ezra Meech

Ezra Meech ( July 26 1773 in New London, Connecticut; † September 23, 1856 in Shelburne, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1819 and 1821 he represented the sixth and 1825-1827 the third electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ezra Meech attended the public schools in Hinesburg (Vermont ), where he had moved in 1785. Then he went into the wood transportation business in the fur trade and Canada. He later moved to Shelburne, where he was engaged in agriculture and especially in cattle breeding. Politically, Meech joined, founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. Between 1805 and 1807, he was a member of the House of Representatives of Vermont. In the congressional elections of 1818 he was in the sixth district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1819, to succeed William Hunter. Until March 3, 1821 he completed only one term in Congress.

From 1822 to 1823 Meech was Chief Judge of the District Court in Chittenden County, Vermont. After the dissolution of his party in the 1820s, he joined Andrew Jackson and was as its partisans in the congressional elections of 1824 again elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. This time, however, he was the fourth electoral district of Vermont. Until March 3, 1827 he spent a further term in Congress. As a supporter of Jackson, he was a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this. In the years 1830, 1831, 1832 and 1833 respectively, he was unsuccessful candidate of his party in the gubernatorial election in Vermont.

In the further course Meech changed his party affiliation and became a member of the Whigs. In 1840 he was one of the electors who formally chose William Henry Harrison as President. After that Meech retired from politics and returned to his agricultural interests. He died in September 1856 and was buried in Shelburne.