Jonathan Stoddard Explained

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]

Biography

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2015-03-18. About the Office. 2020-11-11. www.justice.gov. en.
  2. Book: The Judicial and Civil History of Connecticut. Boston History Company. 1895.
  3. Book: Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Notices of Graduates of Yale College: Including Those Graduated in Classes Later Than 1815, who are Not Commemorated in the Annual Obituary Records. Yale College. 1913. 227.