10 Facts About Ezra Meech

Ezra Meech was an American fur trader and politician.

Ezra Meech moved to Hinesburg in the Vermont Republic with his parents in 1785 and attended the common schools.

Ezra Meech engaged in the fur trade in the Northwest and in ship-timber contracts in British Canada.

Ezra Meech moved to Shelburne, Vermont, and owned a farm.

Ezra Meech was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1805 until 1807.

Ezra Meech was elected as a Democratic-Republican candidate to the Sixteenth United States Congress, serving from March 4,1819, until March 3,1821.

Ezra Meech was a delegate to the state constitutional conventions in 1822 and 1826, and was chief judge of the Chittenden County Court in 1822 and 1823.

Ezra Meech was elected as a Jacksonian candidate to the Nineteenth United States Congress, serving from March 4,1825, until March 3,1827.

Ezra Meech was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of Vermont in 1830,1831,1832, and 1833.

Ezra Meech served as a presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1840.