Dudley Chase Denison

Dudley Chase Denison

Dudley Chase Denison (born September 13, 1819 in Royalton , Vermont , †  February 10, 1905 there ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1875 and 1879 he represented the second constituency of the state of Vermont in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Dudley Denison was a nephew of Dudley Chase (1771-1846), who had represented the State of Vermont in the US Senate between 1813 and 1819 and from 1825 to 1831 . Salmon P. Chase (1808–1873), a future Senator, Treasury Secretary, and Chief Justice, was a cousin of Dudley Denison.

Denison attended the Royalton Academy and then studied until 1840 at the University of Vermont in Burlington . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1845, he began to practice in Royalton in this profession. He was a member of the Vermont Senate from 1853 to 1854 and served as a prosecutor between 1858 and 1860. He was then a member of the Vermont House of Representatives between 1861 and 1863 . He then became a federal attorney for the Vermont district. Denison held this office between 1865 and 1869.

In the 1874 congressional elections, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington as an independent Republican candidate in the second district of Vermont . There he took over from Luke P. Poland on March 4, 1875 . In the elections of 1876 Denison was confirmed as a regular candidate for the Republican Party in office. This enabled him to complete two legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1879 . In 1878 Denison renounced another candidacy. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer. Politically, he did not hold any other higher offices. Dudley Denison died in February 1905 in his birthplace Royalton and was buried there.

Web links

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

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