David Plant

David Plant (March 29, 1783 – October 18, 1851[1]) was a United States Representative from Connecticut. Born in Stratford, Connecticut, Plant attended the Episcopal Academy in Cheshire, Connecticut, and graduated from Yale College in 1804. He studied law at the Litchfield Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1804. Plant practiced law in Stratford and became a judge of the probate court of Fairfield County.

David Plant
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut's at-large district
In office March 4, 1827 – March 3, 1829
Preceded by	Gideon Tomlinson
Succeeded by	William Ellsworth
30th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut
In office May 7, 1823 – May 2, 1827
Governor	Oliver Wolcott Jr.
Preceded by	Jonathan Ingersoll
Succeeded by	John Peters
1st Speaker of the Connecticut House of Representatives
In office 1819–1820
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Elisha Phelps
Personal details
Born	March 29, 1783 Stratford, Connecticut
Died	18 October 1851 (aged 68) Stratford, Connecticut
Political party	Toleration Party (1819-1822) National Republican Party (1823-1828)
Education	Yale College Litchfield Law School

Plant was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1817 to 1820 and served as its first speaker in 1819 and 1820. He was a Connecticut state senator in 1821 and 1822. The following year he became Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, a position he held until 1827.

That year he was elected as an anti-Jacksonian Member of the U.S. House of Representatives of the Twentieth Congress, which was in session from March 4, 1827 until March 3, 1829. He did not seek re-election as an Adams man in 1828, but he did receive a small number of votes as a Jacksonian candidate, as he had in the 1825 and 1826 gubernatorial elections.[2] Afterwards, he returned to his law practice in Connecticut. David Plant died in Stratford in 1851 and was buried in the Congregational Burying Ground.

References

1. Samuel Orcutt, A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1886, p. 227
2. "David Plant", Our Campaigns Retrieved 9/20/2020

• United States Congress. "David Plant (id: P000375)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.