Jonathan Stoddard | |
Birth Date: | 8 October 1807 |
Birth Place: | Derby, Connecticut, US |
Death Place: | New Haven, Connecticut, US |
Alma Mater: | Yale (1831) Yale Law School (1833) |
Office: | United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut |
President: | John Tyler James K. Polk |
Predecessor: | Charles Chapman |
Successor: | Thomas Clap Perkins |
Term Start: | 1844 |
Term End: | 1849 |
Profession: | Lawyer |
Party: | Democrat |
Jonathan Stoddard (October 9, 1807 – August 8, 1855) was an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut under two presidents[1]
Jonathan Stoddard was born in Derby, Connecticut on October 9, 1807. After graduating his father's alma mater, Yale, in 1831,[2] he began Yale Law School. Upon his graduation in 1833 he was admitted to the New Haven Bar. He was a Democrat and spent five years serving as the United States Attorney for the district of Connecticut. He died unmarried of an unknown illness in 1845.[3]