- The House and Civil Rights
- Impeachment: President Andrew Johnson
- The People’s House: A Guide to Its History, Spaces, and Traditions
- Electronic Technology in the House of Representatives
- History of the House Page Program
- The 1954 Shooting
- Congressional Sporting Events
- Florence Kahn: Congressional Widow to Trailblazing Lawmaker
CHAPMAN, Charles
1799–1869
Concise Biography
CHAPMAN, Charles, a Representative from Connecticut; born in Newtown, Conn., June 21, 1799; pursued academic studies; studied law at the Litchfield (Conn.) Law School; was admitted to the bar in 1820 and commenced practice in New Haven, Conn., in 1827; moved to Hartford in 1832 and became editor of the New England Review; member of the State house of representatives in 1840, 1847, and 1848; United States attorney for the district of Connecticut 1841-1848; unsuccessful candidate in 1848 for election to the Thirty-first Congress; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress (March 4, 1851-March 3, 1853); unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Connecticut as a Temperance candidate in 1854; elected as a Democrat to the State house of representatives in 1862 and 1864; resumed the practice of law; died in Hartford, Conn., on August 7, 1869; interment in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
[ Top ]External Research Collections
Connecticut Historical Society
Hartford, CT
Papers:
1841-1869. 40 letters.
Correspondence with Charlotte Chapman McLean. Also obituaries, account of memorial proceedings of Hartford County Bar, and a pen and ink portrait. One additional letter in the John Miles papers. Card index in repository.
[ Top ]