Samuel C. Crafts

Infobox Senator
name=Samuel Chandler Crafts


width=200px
jr/sr=United States Senator
state=Vermont
party=Democratic-Republican, National Republican, Whig
term=April 23, 1842ndash March 3, 1843
preceded=Samuel Prentiss
succeeded=William Upham
date of birth=birth date|1768|10|6|mf=y
place of birth=Woodstock, Connecticut, U.S.
date of death=death date and age|1853|11|19|1768|10|6|mf=y
place of death=Craftsbury, Vermont, U.S.
spouse=Eunice Wood Crafts
profession=Politician, Judge
religion=
footnotes=

order2=12^th
office2= Governor of Vermont
term_start2= 1828
term_end2= 1831
lieutenant2= Henry Olin, Mark Richards
predecessor2= Ezra Butler
successor2= William A. Palmer

Samuel Chandler Crafts (October 6, 1768ndash November 19, 1853) was a United States Representative, Senator and Governor of Vermont.

Born in Woodstock, Connecticut, he graduated from Harvard College in 1790 and moved in 1791 to Vermont with his father, who founded the town of Craftsbury. He was town clerk from 1799 to 1829 and was a delegate to the Vermont Constitutional convention in 1793. He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1796, 1800-1803, and 1805, and was clerk of the house in 1798-1799. He was register of probate from 1796 to 1815 and was assistant judge of the Orleans County Court from 1800 to 1810 and 1825 to 1828.

Crafts made an extensive botanical reconnaissance of the Mississippi Valley in 1802; he was a member of the State council from 1809 to 1813 and was chief judge of the Orleans County Court from 1810 to 1816. He was elected to the Fifteenth and to the three succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1817 to March 3, 1825; he again served as State councilor in 1825 and 1826. Craft was Governor of Vermont from 1828 to 1831 and a member of the Vermont constitutional convention of 1829 and served as its president. He was clerk of Orleans County from 1836 to 1839, and was appointed and subsequently elected to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Samuel Prentiss, and served from April 23, 1842, until March 3, 1843.

Samuel Crafts retired to his farm in Craftsbury where he died in 1853; interment was in North Craftsbury Cemetery, North Craftsbury.

References

External links

* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7180084 Samuel C. Crafts] at Find A Grave

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district=AL
before=Daniel Chipman
Luther Jewett
Chauncey Langdon
Asa Lyon
Charles Marsh
John Noyes
after="(none)"
years=March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1821
Served alongside: Heman Allen, William Hunter, Orsamus C. Merrill, Charles Rich, Mark Richards, Ezra Meech, Rollin C. Mallary and William StrongUSRepSuccessionBox
state=Vermont
district=5
before="(none)"
after=John Mattocks
years=March 4, 1821ndash March 3, 1825succession box
title=Governor of Vermont
before=Ezra Butler
after=William A. Palmer
years=1828ndash 1831U.S. Senator box
state=Vermont
class=3
before=Samuel Prentiss
after=William Upham
alongside=Samuel S. Phelps
years=April 23, 1842ndash March 3, 1843succession box
title=Oldest living U.S. Senator
before=Elisha Mathewson
after=Jonathan Roberts
years= October 14, 1853ndash November 19, 1853