Ichabod Bartlett Explained

State:New Hampshire
Term Start:March 4, 1823
Term End:March 3, 1829
Office2:Speaker of the
New Hampshire House of Representatives 30th New Hampshire General Court
Term Start2:June 6, 1821
Term End2:June 30, 1821
Successor2:Charles Woodman
Birth Date:24 July 1786
Resting Place:Harmony Grove Cemetery
Portsmouth
Rockingham County
New Hampshire

Ichabod Bartlett (July 24, 1786 – October 19, 1853) was an American politician and a United States representative from New Hampshire.

Early life

Bartlett was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire on July 24, 1786. He received a classical education and graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover in 1808. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1811, commencing practice in Durham.[1]

Career

Bartlett moved to Portsmouth in 1816 and continued the practice of law. He was the clerk of the New Hampshire Senate in 1817 and 1818, and served as the state solicitor for Rockingham County 1819-1821. In addition, he was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives 1819-1821 and served as speaker in 1821.[2]

Elected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and as an Adams to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses, Bartlett served as United States Representative from (March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1829). He declined the appointment as chief justice of the court of common pleas in 1825 and was again a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives 1830, 1838, 1851, and 1852. Failing in a bid for the governorship of New Hampshire in 1832, he served as a member of the state constitutional convention in 1850.

Death

Bartlett was never married and died in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on October 19, 1853 (age 67 years, 87 days).[3] He is interred at Harmony Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Beach, Morgan, Rines, Roe, Dole, Copeland. Frederick Converse, Forrest, George Edwin, E. T., Nathan Haskell, Thomas Campbell. The Encyclopedia Americana: A General Dictionary of the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Etc., of the World; Editor-in-chief, Frederick Converse Beach ... Managing Editor, Forrest Morgan ... Assistant Editors, Nathan Haskell Dole ... Edward Thomas Roe ... Thomas Campbell Copeland. 1903. Americana Company, 1903 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries. 19 July 2014.
  2. Book: Drake. Francis Samuel. Dictionary of American Biography: Including Men of the Time ... and a Supplement. 1879. Houghton; Osgood, 1879 - America. 19 July 2014.
  3. Web site: Ichabod Bartlett. Ancestry.com. 19 July 2014.