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Senate Years of Service: 1807-1813 Party: Federalist
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Connecticut Historical Society
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GOODRICH, Chauncey, (brother of Elizur Goodrich),
a Representative and a Senator from Connecticut; born in Durham, Middlesex
County, Conn., October 20, 1759; pursued preparatory studies; graduated from Yale College in
1776; taught in the Hopkins Grammar School 1777-1778 and in Yale College 1779-1781; studied
law; admitted to the bar in 1781 and began practice in Hartford, Conn.; member, State house of
representatives 1793-1794; elected as a Federalist to the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Congresses (March
4, 1795-March 3, 1801); resumed the practice of law in Hartford; member, State executive council
1802-1807; elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Uriah Tracy; reelected and served from October 25, 1807, until May 1813, when he resigned to
become lieutenant governor; elected mayor of Hartford in 1812 and lieutenant governor of
Connecticut in 1813, holding both offices at the time of his death; delegate to the Hartford Convention
in 1814; died in Hartford, Conn., August 18, 1815; interment in the Old North Cemetery.
Bibliography American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography.
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