Thomas Chittenden

Thomas Chittenden ( born January 6, 1730 in East Guilford, Connecticut; † August 25, 1797 in Montpelier ) was an American statesman and Governor of the U.S. state of Vermont.

Life

Chittenden moved in 1774 from Connecticut to Vermont, where he founded the city of Williston. During the Revolutionary War he was a member of a committee, which should move the Continental Congress to receive Vermont into the Union.

However, the Congress postponed the solution of the substantive issue, because you did not want to detune the states of New York and New Hampshire, who expressed both territorial claims against Vermont.

1777 therefore adopted an Assembly in Windsor, the first constitution of Vermont, which established the state as an independent republic and thus the first Republic on the North American continent. During this phase, Chittenden officiated as governor of this republic from 1778 to 1789 and in a second term from 1790 to 1791.

As Vermont finally joined the Union in 1791 as the 14th State, sat Chittenden his term as governor continued until 1797. Only a few weeks after his departure from office, he died at the age of 67 years. His son Martin Chittenden, as well as his son Jonas Galusha, who had married his daughter Mary, were also governors of Vermont.

Commemoration

Chittenden is on the Thomas Chittenden Cemetery, Williston, Chittenden County, Vermont buried. Named after him are the aforementioned County and the town of Chittenden, Rutland County, Vermont.

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