Simeon B. Chittenden

Simeon Baldwin Chittenden and Mary Elizabeth Hartwell

Simeon Baldwin Chittenden (born March 29, 1814 in Guilford , Connecticut , † April 14, 1889 in Brooklyn , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1874 and 1881 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Simeon Baldwin Chittenden was born and raised in Guilford during the British-American War . He attended the Guilford Academy . Chittenden was in New Haven between 1829 and 1842 and in New York City from 1842 onwards . In the last year of the Civil War , he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in Congress. Between 1867 and 1869 he was Vice President of the New York Chamber of Commerce . On November 3, 1874, he was elected as an independent Republican in the third electoral district of New York to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Stewart L. Woodford . He was re-elected as an independent Republican to the following 44th Congress , and as a Republican to the subsequent two. In the midterm elections in 1880 , he suffered a defeat and stepped down after the March 3, 1881 Congress of. Then he retired from public life. He died in Brooklyn on April 14, 1889 and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery .

family

Simeon Baldwin Chittenden was married to Mary Elizabeth Hartwell, daughter of Sherman Hartwell and Sophia Todd. Her father was the nephew of founding father Roger Sherman and his first wife, Elizabeth Hartwell.

Web links

• Simeon B. Chittenden in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Simeon B. Chittenden in the database of Find a Grave (English)