1. John Mattocks was an American Whig politician, a brigadier general in the War of 1812, US Representative, and 16th governor of Vermont.
12 Facts About John Mattocks
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John Mattocks's father, Samuel Mattocks, was a veteran of the American Revolution and served as Vermont State Treasurer from 1784 to 1800.
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John Mattocks pursued an academic course, studied law in Middlebury, Vermont and Fairfield, Connecticut, and was admitted to the bar in 1797.
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John Mattocks married Esther Newell and they had five children; three sons, George, John, and William; and two daughters named Esther who died in their first years.
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John Mattocks was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1807,1815,1816,1823, and 1824.
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John Mattocks was elected to the Seventeenth Congress.
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John Mattocks was elected to the Nineteenth Congress ; and served as chairman of the US House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War.
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John Mattocks was a judge of the Vermont Supreme Court in 1833 and 1834, and declined to be a candidate for renomination.
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John Mattocks was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1836 He was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress.
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John Mattocks died in Peacham, Vermont, August 14,1847; is interred at Peacham Village Cemetery, Caledonia County, Vermont.
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John Mattocks's house, built in 1805 and purchased in 1807, stands in the center of town and is a local landmark.
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John Mattocks's son John was a minister, and his son, William became a lawyer and served as Caledonia County's state's attorney.