Elizur Goodrich
Elizur Goodrich | |
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At-large district | |
In office March 4, 1799 – March 3, 1801 | |
Preceded by | Jonathan Brace |
Succeeded by | John Davenport |
Collector of Customs | |
In office 1801–1803 | |
Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives | |
In office 1795-1802 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Chauncey Allen Goodrich | March 24, 1761
Parent | Elizur Goodrich |
Alma mater | Yale College |
Occupation | Lawyer, Politician, Judge |
Elizur Goodrich (March 24, 1761 – November 1, 1849) was an eighteenth-century American lawyer and politician from
Biography
Born in Durham in the Connecticut Colony, he was the son of Elizur Goodrich. He graduated from Yale College in 1779, was a tutor there from 1781 to 1783, and studied law.[2] After his was admitted to the bar in 1783, he began the practice of law in New Haven. He served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1795 to 1802 and was its Clerk for six sessions and its Speaker for two.
In the
He was elected to represent Connecticut At-Large to the
Goodrich was elected to the Governor's Council in Connecticut in 1803, serving until 1818. He taught law at Yale from 1801 to 1810 and was
Goodrich was a member of the
He was featured among the 1,700 Congressmen who are on the List of members of the US Congress who owned slaves at one point in American history.[7][8]
Personal life
Goodrich's son,
Goodrich's wife, Annie Willard Allen Goodrich, was the sister of
His sister-in-law,
References
- ^ "Bioguide Search". bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved January 29, 2022.
- ^ "Rep. Elizur Goodrich". Connecticut State Library. Archived from the original on January 6, 2013. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
- ^ "Rep. Elizur Goodrich". Govtrack.us. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
- ^ Fowler, William Chauncey (186). History of Durham, Connecticut: From the First Grant of Land in 1662 to 1866. The own. pp. 120.
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- ^ Day, Thomas (1809). Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Errors, of the State of Connecticut, in the years 1805, 1806, and 1807. Vol. 2. p. xii-xiii.
- ^ "Rep. Elizur Goodrich". Connecticut State Library. Archived from the original on January 6, 2013. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
- ^ Weil, Julie Zauzmer; Blanco, Adrian; Dominguez, Leo. "More than 1,700 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation". Washington Post. Retrieved January 29, 2022.
- ^ "Congress slaveowners", The Washington Post, January 27, 2022, retrieved January 29, 2022
- ^ "Goodrich, Elizur (1761–1849)". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
- ^ "John Allen". Litchfield Historical Society. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
- ^ "ALLEN, John, (1763 - 1812)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved January 9, 2013.
External links
- United States Congress. "Elizur Goodrich (id: G000294)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900. He is the second Elizur in this article. .
- The Political Graveyard:Goodrich, Elizur (1761–1849)
- Elizur Goodrich at Find a Grave