Chauncey Langdon

Chauncey Langdon

Chauncey Langdon (born November 8, 1763 in Farmington , Colony of Connecticut , † July 23, 1830 in Castleton , Vermont ) was an American politician . Between 1815 and 1817 he represented the third constituency of the state of Vermont in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Chauncey Langdon enjoyed a good elementary school education and studied at what was then Yale College , now Yale University , until 1787 . After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began to work in Castleton in 1787 in his new profession. In the meantime he moved his residence and his practice to Windsor . Then he returned to Castleton.

Between 1792 and 1797 he was an administrative clerk at a probate court and from 1798 to 1799 he was a judge there. Langdon became a member of the Federalist Party founded by Alexander Hamilton . In 1808 he was a State Councilor . Between 1813 and 1822 he was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives several times, intermittently . Langdon was the curator of Middlebury College from 1811 until his death in 1830 .

In 1814, Langdon was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the Third District of Vermont . There he took over from James Fisk on March 4, 1815 . Since he refused to run again in the subsequent congressional elections in 1816, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1817. After his time in Congress, Langdon was temporarily a member of the House of Representatives from Vermont until 1822. In 1823 he was elected to the State Council again. He held this office until his death in 1830.

Web links

• Chauncey Langdon in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Chauncey Langdon in database Find a Grave (English)