Aaron Leland

Aaron Leland (born May 28, 1761 in Holliston , Province of Massachusetts Bay , † August 25, 1832 in Chester , Vermont ) was an American politician and Lieutenant Governor of Vermont.

Life

Leland was born in Middlesex County , what is now Massachusetts . He was an ordained Baptist Priest and settled in Chester, Vermont in 1786. Leland was a successful priest and minister who planted a parish that had churches in Andover and Grafton , Massachusetts, and Weathersfield and Jamaica , Vermont.

He was an active politician for the Democratic Republican Party , served in local functions, including city clerk , selectman and worked for Windsor County for 18 years as a side judge . He was also a member of the House of Representatives from Vermont from 1801 to 1811 . He was Speaker of the House of Representatives in 1804. He also belonged to the Governor's_Council and was elector in the 1820 presidential election .

Leland was Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1822 to 1827. He declined to be nominated for governor in 1828. His activity as pastor of his church was more important to him .

Although he was a member of a Masonic Lodge , Leland was active in the Vermont Anti-Masonic Party in the late 1820s . He died in Chester on August 25, 1832. His grave is in Chester Brookside cemetery.

Leland was the recipient of honorary doctorates from Middlebury College and Brown University .

Web links

Aaron Leland in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

^ Annals of the American Pulpit , by William Buell Sprague, 1860, pp. 240-243
^ Magazine article, Vermont Baptists , The Baptist Home Mission Monthly, April, 1885, 99
↑ Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography , Volume 3, 1887, p. 683
↑ Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature , by John McClintock, James Strong, Volume 5, 1873, p. 341
^ History of the Town of Rockingham, Vermont , by Lyman Simpson Hayes (1907), 157
^ History of Vermont , by Zadock Thompson, 1842, p. 53
^ Records of the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont , edited by EP Walton, Montpelier, Issue 6, 1878, p. 211
^ Opinions on Speculative Masonry , by James Creighton Odiorne, 1830, p. 263
^ History of Windsor County, Vermont , edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich and Frank R. Holmes, 1891, 678
^ Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography , edited by Thomas William Herringshaw, Volume 3, 1914, p. 514
^ Historical Catalog of Brown University , Removed from the university, 1905, page 543

personal data
SURNAME	Leland, Aaron
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	May 28, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH	Holliston , Province of Massachusetts Bay
DATE OF DEATH	August 25, 1832
Place of death	Chester , Vermont

[1] Annals of the American Pulpit , by William Buell Sprague, 1860, pp. 240-243

[2] Magazine article, Vermont Baptists , The Baptist Home Mission Monthly, April, 1885, 99

[3] Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography , Volume 3, 1887, p. 683

[4] Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature , by John McClintock, James Strong, Volume 5, 1873, p. 341

[5] History of the Town of Rockingham, Vermont , by Lyman Simpson Hayes (1907), 157

[6] History of Vermont , by Zadock Thompson, 1842, p. 53

[7] Records of the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont , edited by EP Walton, Montpelier, Issue 6, 1878, p. 211

[8] Opinions on Speculative Masonry , by James Creighton Odiorne, 1830, p. 263

[9] History of Windsor County, Vermont , edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich and Frank R. Holmes, 1891, 678

[10] Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography , edited by Thomas William Herringshaw, Volume 3, 1914, p. 514

[11] Historical Catalog of Brown University , Removed from the university, 1905, page 543