SLADE, William, a Representative from Vermont; born in Cornwall, Vt., May 9, 1786; attended the public schools, and was graduated from Middlebury (Vt.) College in 1807; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1810 and commenced practice in Middlebury; engaged in editorial work; established and was the editor of the Columbian Patriot 1814-1816; secretary of state of Vermont 1815-1822; judge of the Addison County Court; clerk in the Department of State, Washington, D.C., 1823-1829; elected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-second Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Rollin C. Mallary; reelected as an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses and elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth through Twenty-seventh Congresses and served from November 1, 1831, to March 3, 1843; reporter of decisions of the state supreme court in 1843 and 1844; governor of Vermont 1844-1846; corresponding secretary of the Board of National Popular Education 1846-1859; died in Middlebury, Addison County, Vt., on January 18, 1859; interment in West Cemetery.
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[ Top ]Phelps, Samuel Shethar. To the people of Vermont. Mr. Phelps' rejoinder to Mr. Slade's "Reply." [Washington: N.p., 1845].
Slade, William. Gov. Slade's reply to Senator Phelps' appeal. Burlington: Chauncey Goodrich, 1846.
------. [Letters of Mr. Slade to Mr. Hallett, November to December, 1835]. [Washington?: N.p., 1835].
------. Masonic penalties. Castleton, Vt.: H. H. Houghton, printer, [1830].
------. A memorial to the legislature of Vermont, for the repeal of acts incorporating the Grand Lodge and Grand Chapter of Vt. [Montpelier?: N.p., 1830].
------. An oration, pronounced at Bridport, July 4, 1829. Middlebury, Vt.: Printed by O. Miner, 1829.
------. Speech of Mr. Slade, of Vermont, on the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia, delivered in the House of Representatives of the U.S. December 20, 1837. To which is added the intended conclusion of the speech, suppressed by resolution of the House. [Washington: N.p., 1837?]
------. Speech of Mr. Slade of Vermont on the resolution relative to the collector of Wiscasset: Delivered in the House of Representatives, May 1832. Washington: Jonathan Eliot, 1832.
------. Speech of Mr. Slade, of Vermont, on the right of petition: The power of Congress to abolish slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia; the implied faith of the North and the South to each other in forming the Constitution; and the principles, purposes, and prospects of abolition. Delivered in the House of Representatives on the 18th and 20th of January, 1840. Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1840.
------. Speech of Mr. Slade, of Vermont, on the subject of the abolition of slavery and the slave trade within the District of Columbia. Delivered in the House of Representatives, December 23, 1835. [Washington]: National Intelligencer Office, 1836.
