John Smith Chipman

John Smith Chipman (born August 10, 1800 in Shoreham , Vermont , †  July 27, 1869 in San José , California ) was an American politician . Between 1845 and 1847 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Chipman attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1823 Middlebury College . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer, he began to work in Addison County and later in Essex County , New York in his new profession. In 1836, Chipman moved to Centerville , Michigan, where he held a number of local offices.

Politically, Chipman was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1842 he was elected to the Michigan House of Representatives. In the congressional elections of 1844 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Lucius Lyon on March 4, 1845 . Until March 3, 1847, he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress . This was determined by the events of the Mexican-American War . After leaving the US House of Representatives, Chipman moved first to Niles and then to San Francisco , California, where he worked as a lawyer. In the year of his death, 1869, he settled in San José, where he died on July 27th.

Web links

• John Smith Chipman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Smith Chipman in the database of Find a Grave (English)