John Mattocks

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John Mattocks
John Mattocks
In office
1843 – 1844
Lieutenant Horace Eaton
Preceded by Charles Paine
Succeeded by William Slade
Born March 4, 1777(1777-03-04)
Hartford, Connecticut
Died August 14, 1847 (aged 70)
Peacham, Vermont
Political party Whig
Profession Lawyer / judge / Politician

John Mattocks (March 4, 1777 - August 14, 1847) was an American Whig politician.

He was born in Hartford, Connecticut on March 4, 1777; moved with his parents to Tinmouth, Vermont, in 1778; pursued an academic course; studied law in Middlebury and Fairfield; was admitted to the bar in 1797 and commenced practice in Danville; moved to Peacham, Caledonia County, Vermont; member of the Vermont State house of representatives in 1807, 1815, 1816, 1823, and 1824; brigadier general of militia in the War of 1812; elected to the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1823); elected to the Nineteenth Congress (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1827); chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Nineteenth Congress); judge of the State supreme court in 1833 and 1834; declined to be a candidate for renomination; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1836; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); Governor of Vermont in 1843 and 1844; died in Peacham, Vermont, August 14, 1847; interred in Peacham Cemetery.


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