Charles_chapman_(connecticut_congressman)
Portrait of Charles Chapman
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Charles C. Chapman

Other Name:
Charles Clarke Chapman
Gender:
Male
Born:
June 21, 1799
Died:
August 7, 1869
Home Town:
Newtown, CT
Later Residences:
New Haven, CT
Hartford, CT
Marriage(s):
Sarah Tomlinson Chapman (January 3, 1821)
Biographical Notes:
  Charles Chapman was the son of Litchfield Law School student Asa Chapman and Mary Perry Chapman. Like his father, Charles Chapman studied at the Litchfield Law School and completed his study under Judge Williams from New Haven. He married Sarah Tomlinson from Newtown, CT when he was twenty one years old. After being admitted to the bar, he began a practice in New Haven, CT but moved to Hartford, CT in 1832. He had a large legal practice and established a reputation as an excellent criminal lawyer.

  Along with being a thriving lawyer, Chapman was heavily involved in politics and was a leading man in the Andrew Jackson Campaign in 1827-28. By 1833 he became a leader in the Conservative Party, eventually identifying himself a member of the Whig Party. Chapman ...
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Additional Notes:
Editor of New England Review 1832
Education
Years at LLS:
1818
Profession / Service
Profession:
Lawyer; Political Office
Admitted To Bar:
Connecticut in 1820
Training with Other Lawyers:
After attending the Litchfield Law School Charles completed his law studies with Chief Justice Williams.
Political Party:
Whig
Federal Posts:
U.S. Attorney for the District of CT (CT) 1841-1848
U.S. Representative (CT) 1851-1853
State Posts:
State Representative (CT) 1840, 1847-1848, 1862, 1864
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CITATION OF ATTENDANCE:
Houghton, Josiah. "LLS Law Notebook 1817-1818." Litchfield Law School Collection, Series 1, Subseries 1, Litchfield Historical Society. Available online at https://archive.org/stream/35102011793091#page/n11/mode/2up.

"Death of Hon. Charles Chapman," Columbian Register, August 14, 1869.
Secondary Sources:
Loomis, Hon. Dwight and J. Gilbert Calhoun, The Judicial and Civil History of Connecticut. Boston: The Boston History Company, Publishers, 1895.; Chapman, Rev. F.W.The Chapman Family. Hartford, Conn.: Case, Tiffany & Co., 1854.; Cothren, William. History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut. From the First Indian Deed in 1659 to 1879. Woodbury, CT: William Cothren, 1879.
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