YEARS 1777-1847
OFFICE Representative
STATE Vermont
POLITICAL PARTY Adams, Republican, Whig
WHICH CONGRESS SERVED 17th (1821-1823), 19th (1825-1827), 27th (1841-1843)
Representative John MATTOCKS Biography
MATTOCKS, John, a Representative from Vermont; born in Hartford, Conn., March 4, 1777; moved with his parents to Tinmouth, Vt., in 1778; pursued an academic course; studied law in Middlebury and Fairfield; was admitted to the bar in 1797 and commenced practice in Danville; moved to Peacham, Caledonia County, Vt.; member of the state house of representatives in 1807, 1815, 1816, 1823, and 1824; brigadier general of militia in the War of 1812; elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1823); reelected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth Congress (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1827); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Nineteenth Congress); judge of the state supreme court in 1833 and 1834; declined to be a candidate for renomination; delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1836; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); governor of Vermont in 1843 and 1844; died in Peacham, Vt., August 14, 1847; interment in Peacham Cemetery. View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
External Research Collections
Vermont Historical Society Montpelier, VT Papers: 1 inch. Business and congressional papers and correspondence and portraits. Finding aid in repository.
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John MATTOCKS Committee Assignments
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