Loren P. Waldo

Loren P. Waldo

Loren Pinckney Waldo (born February 2, 1802 in Canterbury , Windham County , Connecticut , †  September 8, 1881 in Hartford , Connecticut) was an American politician . Between 1849 and 1851 he represented the first constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Loren Waldo attended the public schools in his home country. After that he worked as a teacher himself and worked in agriculture. In 1823 he moved to Tolland . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1825, he began working in his new profession in Somers . In this place he was also a school councilor and from 1829 to 1830 a postman. In 1830 he returned to Tolland. Waldo was a member of the Democratic Party . He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1832 to 1834 and in 1839 . Between 1837 and 1849 he worked as a public prosecutor. From 1842 to 1843 he was also a judge at a probate court. In 1847 Waldo was a member of a commission for the revision of state laws. He then sat again in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1847 to 1848.

In the 1848 congressional election, Waldo was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the first constituency of Connecticut , where he succeeded James Dixon on March 4, 1849 . Since he lost in the elections of 1850 to Charles Chapman of the Whig Party , he could only serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1851 . During his tenure he was chairman of the committee that dealt with severance payments from the revolutionary era.

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Waldo was entrusted with the administration of the Connecticut state school budget. Between 1853 and 1856 he worked for the federal government under President Franklin Pierce in the pension administration. From 1856 to 1863 Loren Waldo was a judge on the Superior Court of his state. He then moved to Hartford, where he practiced as a lawyer. In 1864 he was again a member of a commission for the revision of state laws. Loren Waldo died in Hartford in 1881, where he was also buried. He was married to Frances E. Eldridge (1806-1874), with whom he had at least three children.

Web links

• Loren P. Waldo in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Loren P. Waldo in the database of Find a Grave (English)