1. Nathaniel Chipman was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Vermont and Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court.
14 Facts About Nathaniel Chipman
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Nathaniel Chipman was privately tutored, then began attendance at Yale University, from which he graduated in 1777.
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Nathaniel Chipman was commissioned as an ensign in the 2nd Connecticut Regiment, and joined the army in Pennsylvania.
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Nathaniel Chipman left the army to move to the Vermont Republic, where he attained admission to the bar and entered private practice in Tinmouth.
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Nathaniel Chipman continued his military service as a member of Captain John Spafford's Company, a unit of the militia regiment commanded by Colonel Gideon Warren.
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Nathaniel Chipman was state's attorney in Montpelier from 1781 to 1785, and a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1784 to 1785.
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Nathaniel Chipman was a judge of the Supreme Court of Vermont from 1786 to 1787, and served as chief judge from 1789 to 1791.
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Nathaniel Chipman served as chief justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont from 1796 to 1797.
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Nathaniel Chipman was elected as a Federalist from Vermont to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of United States Senator Isaac Tichenor and served from October 17,1797, until March 3,1803.
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Nathaniel Chipman was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1806 to 1809 and in 1811.
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Nathaniel Chipman was a member of the Vermont Council of Censors in 1813.
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Nathaniel Chipman was chief justice of the Supreme Court of Vermont from 1813 to 1815.
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Nathaniel Chipman was a professor of law at Middlebury College starting in 1816.
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Chipman was the brother of Daniel Chipman, a United States representative from Vermont, and the grandfather of John Logan Chipman, a United States Representative from Michigan, In 1781, Chipman married Sarah Hill, they had six children, including Henry C Chipman.