18 Facts About Paul Dillingham

Paul Dillingham served as a US Representative from Vermont, the 24th lieutenant governor of Vermont from 1862 to 1865, and the 29th governor of Vermont from 1865 to 1867.

The Dillingham family moved to Waterbury, Vermont in 1805, where Dillingham worked on the family farm and attended the district school in Waterbury and Montpelier's Washington County Grammar School.

Paul Dillingham was admitted to the bar in March 1823, and in April he began to practice in Waterbury as Carpenter's partner.

Paul Dillingham gained a reputation throughout Vermont as a skilled trial lawyer with a superior ability to present oral arguments to judges and juries.

Paul Dillingham served as Waterbury's member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1833 to 1835, as State's Attorney of Washington County from 1835 to 1839, and again as Waterbury's member of the Vermont House from 1837 to 1840.

Paul Dillingham served as a delegate to the State constitutional convention of 1836, and a member of the Vermont State Senate in 1841 and 1842.

Paul Dillingham was elected as a to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses.

Paul Dillingham was not a candidate for renomination in 1846.

Paul Dillingham was a delegate to the 1857 State constitutional convention.

Increasingly opposed to slavery and secession, Paul Dillingham declined the Democratic Party's 1860 nomination for governor.

Paul Dillingham served as the lieutenant governor from 1862 to 1865.

Paul Dillingham served as the 29th governor of Vermont from 1865 to 1867.

Paul Dillingham resumed the practice of law, and was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1870.

Paul Dillingham died at his home in Waterbury on July 26,1891.

Paul Dillingham is interred in the Village Cemetery in Waterbury.

Paul Dillingham married Sarah Partridge Carpenter, a daughter of Daniel Carpenter.

Paul Dillingham died on September 20,1831, and on September 5,1832, Dillingham married Sarah's sister Julia.

Paul Dillingham had seven children who lived to adulthood, including William Paul Dillingham, who served as governor and US Senator.