Dudley Chase

Dudley Chase (born December 30, 1771 in Cornish , province of New Hampshire , †  February 23, 1846 in Randolph , Vermont ) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Vermont in the US Senate .

After attending public schools, Chase graduated from Dartmouth College in 1791 . He then studied law , was admitted to the bar in 1793 and began practicing law in Randolph. From 1803 to 1812 he was an Orange County attorney .

In 1805 Chase was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives, to which he served until 1812; from 1808 he was the speaker of the parliamentary chamber. In 1814 and 1822 he was a delegate to the constitutional convention of the state. On March 4, 1813, he finally entered the US Senate as a member of the Democratic Republican Party , where he remained until his resignation on November 3, 1817. During this time he chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee, among other things .

Chase resigned to serve as Chief Justice on the Vermont Supreme Court . He held this office until 1821; thereafter he was again a member of the House of Representatives of his state between 1823 and 1824, before returning to the Senate in Washington on March 4, 1825 . This time he represented the interests of the National Republican Party there until March 3, 1831 . After leaving politics, he devoted himself to agriculture.

Dudley Chase was the uncle of Salmon P. Chase , who later became Treasury Secretary and Chief Justice . Another nephew, Dudley Chase Denison , named after him , sat for Vermont in the US House of Representatives from 1875 to 1879 .

Web links

• Dudley Chase in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Dudley Chase in the database of Find a Grave (English)