Leonard Sargeant

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"Vermont Lawyer", painting from 1841

Leonard Sargeant (born March 17, 1793 in Dorset , Vermont , † June 18, 1880 in Johnstown , Pennsylvania ) was an American politician who was Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1846 to 1848 .

Life

Sargeant was born in Dorset, Vermont. He studied law and became a lawyer in Manchester with Richard Skinner . He was also a farmer and Vice President of the Vermont Agricultural Society. He was a member of the Whig Party and held various public offices such as executor , judge , prosecutor , postmaster and justice of the peace . He was a member of the Vermont Council of Censors in 1827 and a delegate to the Vermont founding assembly in 1836.

His legal career included the notable defense of brothers Stephen and Jesse Boorn, convicted of killing their brother-in-law Russell Colvin and sentenced to life imprisonment (Jesse) and death (Stephen). Colvin went missing in his hometown of Manchester. Many years later, Colvin returned to Vermont to prove he was still alive. He had moved to New Jersey after an argument with the Boorns and changed his name. The case of the Boorn brothers was the first known example of a miscarriage of justice relating to murder in the United States.

Sargeant was an MP in the Vermont House of Representatives and the Vermont Senate in the 1830s and 1840s. From 1846 to 1848 he was Lieutenant Governor of Vermont.

He worked as a lawyer until the 1870s. After retiring from office and business, he moved to his daughter's home in Johnstown, Pennsylvania. He died there on June 18, 1880. His grave is in Dellwood Cemetery in Manchester.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Magazine article, Vermont Agricultural and Horticultural Society , The School Journal and Vermont Agriculturist, Dec 1847, 121
  2. ^ Journal of the Senate of the State of Vermont , edited by Vermont General Assembly, 1842, 7
  3. ^ History of Vermont , by Zadock Thompson, 1842, 127
  4. ^ Journal of the Convention Holden at Montpelier, on the 6th day of January, 1836 , edited by J. Spooner, St. Albans, 1836, p. 4
  5. ^ Vermont Year Book , edited by EP Walton, Montpelier, 1836, 103
  6. ↑ United States Official Postal Guide , edited by the United States Post Office Department, 1822, p. 48
  7. ↑ America's First Wrongful Murder Conviction Case , Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern University School of Law, accessed January 5, 2011
  8. ^ The Trial, Confessions and Conviction of Jesse and Stephen Boorn for the Murder of Russell Colvin , by Leonard Sargeant, 1873
  9. ^ The Vermont Historical Gazetteer , edited by Abby Maria Hemenway, Issue 1, 1867, p. 202
  10. ↑ General Election results, Vermont Lieutenant Governor, 1813-2011 ( Memento of the original of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Vermont Secretary of State , State Archives and Records Administration, 2011, 7 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vermont-archives.org
  11. ↑ The Bibliography of Vermont , 1897, p. 242

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personal data
SURNAME Sargeant, Leonard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician, lawyer, and lieutenant governor
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorset , Vermont
DATE OF DEATH June 18, 1880
Place of death Johnstown , Pennsylvania