Epaphroditus Champion was an American politician and military officer from Connecticut.
12 Facts About Epaphroditus Champion
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Epaphroditus Champion was educated both by private tutors and in the common schools.
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Epaphroditus Champion's brother Henry Epaphroditus Champion was a major in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and served in the Connecticut state house of representatives.
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Epaphroditus Champion helped his father gather a herd of 300 cattle at Hartford, Connecticut and drive them west to King's Ferry, across the Hudson, into New Jersey, across the Delaware to Washington's famished troops west of the Schuylkill.
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Epaphroditus Champion served as a captain in the Twenty-fourth Regiment of the Connecticut State militia from 1784 to 1792, as major from 1793 to 1794, as lieutenant colonel from 1795 to 1798, and as brigadier general of the Seventh Brigade from 1800 to 1803.
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Epaphroditus Champion worked as a merchant, shipowner, exporter and importer.
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Epaphroditus Champion was successful in conducting trade in the West Indies.
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Epaphroditus Champion was a member of the Connecticut state assembly from 1791 to 1806.
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Epaphroditus Champion was elected as a Federalist candidate to the Tenth United States Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4,1807, to March 3,1817.
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Epaphroditus Champion served as commissary general of provisions for army pensioners in 1832.
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Epaphroditus Champion died on December 22,1834, in East Haddam, Connecticut.
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Epaphroditus Champion is interred in Riverview Cemetery in East Haddam.