- John Mattocks
Infobox Governor
name= John Mattocks
caption=
order=16th
office= Governor of Vermont
term_start= 1843
term_end= 1844
lieutenant=Horace Eaton
predecessor=Charles Paine
successor=William Slade
birth_date= birth date|1777|3|4|mf=y
birth_place=Hartford, Connecticut
death_date= death date and age|1847|8|14|1777|3|4|mf=y
death_place=Peacham, Vermont
spouse=
profession=Lawyer /judge /Politician
party= Whig
footnotes=John Mattocks (
March 4 ,1777 -August 14 ,1847 ) was an American Whigpolitician .He was born in
Hartford, Connecticut on March 4, 1777; moved with his parents toTinmouth, 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 inPeacham, Vermont ,August 14 ,1847 ; interred in Peacham Cemetery.ources
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