Thomas Bartlett, Jr.

Thomas Bartlett, Jr. ( born June 18, 1808 in Sutton, Caledonia County, Vermont; † September 12, 1876 in Lyndon, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1853 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Bartlett attended the public schools of his home. After studying law and its made ​​in 1833 admitted to the bar he began in Groton to work in his new profession. In 1836 he moved his residence and his law firm after Lyndon. Between 1839 and 1842 he was district attorney in Caledonia County.

Bartlett was a member of the Democratic Party. From 1841 to 1842 he was a member of the Senate of Vermont; 1849-1855 he was a deputy several times in the House of the State. In the years 1850 and 1857 he was a delegate to each meetings to revise the Constitution of Vermont. 1850 Bartlett was selected in the fourth district of the state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Lucius Benedict Peck on March 4, 1851. Until March 3, 1853, he could only remain for a term in Congress. During this time he was chairman of the Committee for the administration of public buildings. Bartlett was the last congressman of the fourth district of Vermont, which was dissolved in 1852. A, undertaken in the same year an attempt to candidacy in another district was unsuccessful.

After the end of his time in Congress Thomas Bartlett again worked as a lawyer. He died in September 1876 in Lyndon and was also buried there.

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