"Connecticut Senator" Jabez W. Huntington Clipped Signature For Sale
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"Connecticut Senator" Jabez W. Huntington Clipped Signature:
$279.99
Up for sale "Connecticut Senator" Jabez W. Huntington Clipped Signature.
8, 1788 – November 2, 1847) was a United States Born in Norwich, son of Zachariah
Huntington and Hannah Mumford Huntington, Huntington pursued classical studies. He graduated from Yale College in 1806. Jabez taught in the Litchfield South
Farms Academy for one year, and studied law at the Litchfield Law School during
1808. He was admitted to the bar in 1810 and commenced practice in Litchfield. He
married Sally Ann Huntington, the youngest daughter of his first cousin Joseph
Huntington, on May 22, 1833. They did not have any children. Huntington was a
member of the Connecticut
House of Representatives from Litchfield in 1828. Elected to
the U.S. House of
Representatives in the Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and
Twenty-third U.S. Congresses, He served from March 4, 1829, to August 16, 1834,
when he resigned and moved to Norwich to accept the appointment of judge of
the Connecticut
Supreme Court of Errors. He held that office from 1834 to 1840. In
1840 Huntington was elected as a Whig to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death
of Thaddeus Betts. He was
reelected, and served from May 4, 1840 until his death. During the
Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eight Congresses, he was chairman of the Committee on
Commerce.
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