Andrew Tracy

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Andrew Tracy (December 15, 1797 - October 28, 1868) was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Hartford, Vermont. He attended Royalton and Randolph Academies, and also Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire for two years. He taught school, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1826 and commenced practice in Quechee, Vermont. He moved to Woodstock, Vermont in 1838 and continued the practice of law.

Tracy was member of the Vermont House of Representatives 1833-1837. He served in the Vermont Senate in 1839 and was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress. He was again a member of the Vermont House of Representatives 1843-1845 and served as speaker. He was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853 - March 3, 1855). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress and resumed the practice of his profession. He died in Woodstock, Vermont in 1868 and was buried in Old Cemetery on River Street.

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• Andrew Tracy at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress