Simeon B. Chittenden

Simeon Baldwin Chittenden (* March 29, 1814 in Guilford, Connecticut, † April 14, 1889 in Brooklyn, New York) was an American politician. Between 1874 and 1881 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Simeon Baldwin Chittenden was born during the British - American War in Guilford and grew up there. He attended Guilford Academy. Chittenden was 1829-1842 in New Haven and in 1842 in New York City commercial transactions after. In the last year of the Civil War, he ran unsuccessfully for a congress seat. Between 1867 and 1869 he was then vice president of the Chamber of Commerce of New York. On November 3, 1874, he was an independent Republican in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the resignation of Stewart L. Woodford. He was re-elected as an independent Republican in the following 44th Congress and as a Republican in the following two. In the congressional elections in 1880, he suffered a defeat and retired after the March 3, 1881 from the Congress of. After he retired from public life. He died on 14 April 1889 in Brooklyn and was then buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery.

Family

Simeon Baldwin Chittenden was with Mary Elizabeth Hartwell, daughter of Sherman Hartwell and Sophia Todd, married. Her father was the nephew of founding father Roger Sherman and his first wife Elizabeth Hartwell.