Charles Chapman (politician, 1799)

Charles Chapman

Charles Chapman (born June 21, 1799 in Newtown , Connecticut , †  August 7, 1869 in Hartford , Connecticut) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1851 and 1853 he represented the first constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Chapman enjoyed a good education and then studied law at Litchfield Law School . After his admission to the bar in 1820, he began practicing his new profession in New Haven in 1827 . In 1832 he moved to Hartford, where he published the New England Review.

Politically, Chapman was a member of the Whig Party at the time . He was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1840, 1847, and 1848 . Between 1841 and 1848 he was the successor to William S. Holabird as a federal attorney for Connecticut. In 1848 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress . In the 1850 congressional election, Chapman was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC as a Whig candidate in the first constituency of Connecticut . On March 4, 1851, he succeeded the Democrat Loren P. Waldo . Until March 3, 1853 he could only spend one legislative period in Congress.

In 1854, Chapman ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for the abstinence movement for the office of governor of Connecticut. Chapman later became a member of the Democrats. For this party he was again a member of the House of Representatives from Connecticut between 1862 and 1864. Then he worked again as a lawyer. Charles Chapman died in Hartford in August 1869 and was buried there.

Web links

• Charles Chapman (politician, 1799) in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles Chapman in the database of Find a Grave (English)