Benjamin Swift
Benjamin Swift | |
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Heman Allen (of Milton) | |
| Member of the Vermont House of Representatives from St. Albans | |
| In office 1825–1827 | |
| Preceded by | Stephen Royce |
| Succeeded by | John Smith |
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| Born | April 3, 1781 Banker Farmer |
Benjamin Swift (April 9, 1780 – November 11, 1847) was an American
Early life
Swift was born in
Political career
He held various political positions in Vermont, and was elected to the Vermont State House in 1825.[3] He served in the State House until 1827. He was then elected to serve Vermont as a National Republican Party candidate in the United States House of Representatives. He served in the Twentieth and the Twenty-first Congresses from March 4, 1827, to March 3, 1831.[4] While in Congress, he was on the executive committee of the Congressional Temperance Society.[5] He declined renomination.
In 1833 he was elected as an
Family life
Swift married Rebecca Brown on October 26, 1809.[3] They were the parents of nine children: Charles Henry, Cordelia, William, Catherine Sedgwick, Alfred Brown, Jane Harriet, George Sedgwick, Caroline, and Charles Benjamin.[1]
References
- ^ a b "Benjamin Swift". Ancestry.com. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
- ^ a b "Benjamin Swift". Litchfield Historical Society. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
- ^ a b Middlebury College (1917). Catalogue of Officers and Students of Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. The College. p. xiv.
- ^ a b Herringshaw, Thomas William (1904). Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century. American Publishers' Association. p. 910.
- ^ American Temperance Union (1837). Journal of the American Temperance Union, Volumes 1-4. The Union. p. 36.
- ^ U.S. Government Printing Office (1913). United States Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 1039.
- ^ "Prominent People Buried in Vermont". Vermont Old Cemetery Association. Retrieved May 6, 2014.
Further reading
- Smith, Worthington. A Discourse, Delivered November 17, 1847, at the Interment of the Hon. Benjamin Swift, Late a U.S. Senator from the State of Vermont. St. Albans, VT: E.B. Whiting, 1848.
External links
- United States Congress. "Benjamin Swift (id: S001116)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Benjamin Swift at Find a Grave
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