Loren P. Waldo
Loren Pinckney Waldo ( born February 2, 1802 in Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut, † September 8, 1881 in Hartford, Connecticut ) was an American politician. Between 1849 and 1851 he represented the first electoral district of the State of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Loren Waldo attended the public schools of his home. He then worked as a teacher and even worked in agriculture. In 1823 he moved to Tolland. After studying law and its made in 1825 admitted to the bar he began in Somers to work in his new profession. In this place he was also school board and 1829-1830 postmaster. In 1830 he returned to Tolland. Waldo was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1832 and 1834, and in 1839 he was a member of the House of Connecticut. Between 1837 and 1849 he worked as a prosecutor. From 1842 to 1843 he was the same judge in a probate court. In 1847, Waldo was a member of a commission to revise the laws of the state. Then he sat from 1847 to 1848 again in the House of Connecticut.
In the congressional elections of 1848, Waldo was the first electoral district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Dixon on March 4, 1849. Since he lost to Charles Chapman of the Whig Party in the elections of 1850, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1851. During his tenure, he was chairman of the committee that dealt with severance from the revolutionary period.
After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Waldo was entrusted with the management of the school budget, the State of Connecticut. From 1853 to 1856 he worked for the federal government under President Franklin Pierce in the pension administration. From 1856 to 1863 was Loren Waldo judge at the Superior Court of his state. Then he moved to Hartford, where he practiced as a lawyer. In 1864 he was again a member of a commission to revise the laws of the state. Loren Waldo died in 1881 in Hartford, where he was also buried. He was married to Frances E. Eldridge (1806-1874), with whom he had at least three children.