Lucius Benedict Peck

Lucius Benedict Peck ( born November 17 1802 in Waterbury, Washington County, Vermont, † December 28, 1866 in Lowell, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1847 and 1851 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lucius Peck received a good education. Between 1823 and 1824 he attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. However, he had to drop out of college due to illness there. After studying law in Montpelier and its made ​​in 1825 admitted to the bar he began in Barre to work in his new profession. Peck was also the first chief of police (Sheriff ) in Washington County and was brigadier general of state militia.

Peck was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1831 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Vermont. In 1832 he moved his residence and his law firm to Montpelier. In 1839 he was a member of a commission to revise the laws of his state. In the congressional elections of 1846 he was in the fourth district of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Paul Dillingham on March 4, 1847. After a re-election in 1848 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1851 two legislative sessions. Since 1849 he was chairman of the Craftsman Income ( Committee on Manufacturers). During his time in Congress, the end of the Mexican-American War and by the conclusion of peace made ​​possible significant extension of the territory of the United States in the southwest and west of the country fell.

In 1850, Peck gave up another run for Congress. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for the post of Governor of Vermont. He then worked again as a lawyer. In 1852 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore, on the Franklin Pierce was nominated as presidential candidate of the party. From 1853 to 1857 Peck was Federal Attorney for the District of Vermont. Since 1858 he worked for the railroad company Vermont and Canada Railroad, whose president he became in 1859. This office he held until his death in 1866. Lucius Peck was married in 1832 to Martha Day, the couple had a daughter.

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