1. Martin Chittenden was an American politician from Vermont.
18 Facts About Martin Chittenden
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Martin Chittenden served as a United States representative from 1803 to 1813 and as the seventh governor of Vermont from 1813 to 1815, during a crucial portion of the War of 1812.
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Martin Chittenden moved to Vermont in 1776 in the wake of the founding of the town of Williston by his father Thomas Chittenden.
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Martin Chittenden attended Mares School and, in 1789, graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.
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Martin Chittenden served as aide-de-camp to Lieutenant Governor Peter Olcott in 1790, and from 1790 until 1793 he served as clerk of the county court of Chittenden County, Vermont.
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Martin Chittenden served as a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1790 until 1796.
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Martin Chittenden was judge of the Chittenden County Court from 1793 until 1795, and served as chief justice of the Chittenden County Court from 1796 until 1813.
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Martin Chittenden was the first census collector for Chittenden County.
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Martin Chittenden was appointed a captain in the Vermont Militia's 1st Regiment, 7th Division in 1793, and promoted to lieutenant colonel and regimental commander in 1794.
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Martin Chittenden was elected as a Federalist candidate to the Eighth Congress and was reelected to the Ninth Congress, Tenth Congress, Eleventh Congress and Twelfth Congress, serving from March 4,1803, until March 3,1813.
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Martin Chittenden was elected Governor of Vermont in 1813, replacing his brother-in-law, Jonas Galusha, who was his successor in the post.
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Martin Chittenden served as governor from October 23,1813, until October 14,1815.
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In November 1813, conscious of the British encroachment on Plattsburgh, New York, members of the Vermont militia asked Martin Chittenden to let them intervene.
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Martin Chittenden declined, though the militia leaders claimed that this was the result of pressure from his advisers.
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Martin Chittenden was the brother in law of Matthew Lyon and Jonas Galusha.
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Martin Chittenden was the uncle of Matthew Lyons' son Chittenden Lyon, a United States Representative from Kentucky.
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Martin Chittenden died on September 5,1840, in Williston, Vermont, in 1840.
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Martin Chittenden is interred at the Thomas Chittenden Cemetery in Williston.