John Smith Chipman

John Smith Chipman (* August 10, 1800 in Shoreham, Vermont, † July 27, 1869 in San Jose, California ) was an American politician. Between 1845 and 1847 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Chipman attended the common schools and afterwards until 1823, Middlebury College. After a subsequent law school and his admission to the bar he began in Addison County and later to work in Essex County in the state of New York in his new profession. In 1836, Chipman moved to Centerville in Michigan, where he held several local offices.

Politically Chipman was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1842 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Michigan. In the congressional elections of 1844 he was in the second electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Lucius Lyon on March 4, 1845. Until March 3, 1847, he was able to complete a term in Congress. This was determined by the events of the Mexican-American War. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Chipman first moved to Niles, and then to San Francisco, California, where he worked as a lawyer. In his death in 1869, he settled in San Jose, where he died on July 27.

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