Ebenezer Stoddard

Ebenezer Stoddard
Ebenezer Stoddard
Member of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut
	In office; March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1825
33rd and 35th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut
	In office; May 1, 1833 – May 7, 1834
Governor	Henry W. Edwards
Preceded by	Thaddeus Betts
Succeeded by	Thaddeus Betts
	In office; May 6, 1835 – May 2, 1838
Governor	Henry W. Edwards
Preceded by	Thaddeus Betts
Succeeded by	Charles Hawley
Personal details
Born	May 6, 1785; Union, Connecticut
Died	August 19, 1847 (aged 82); West Woodstock, Woodstock, Connecticut
Political party	Democratic-Republican, Adams-Clay Republican
Children	2
Alma mater	Brown University (1807)

Ebenezer Stoddard (May 6, 1785 – August 19, 1847) was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was born in Union. He attended Woodstock Academy in 1802 and in 1803, and was graduated from Brown University in 1807. After studying, he was admitted to the bar in 1810 and commenced practice in West Woodstock.

Stoddard was elected as Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress and reelected as an Adams-Clay Republican candidate to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1825). After leaving Congress, he served in the Connecticut Senate in 1825–1827. He was the 33rd and 35th lieutenant governor of the state in 1833 and 1835–1837. He continued to practice law before dying in West Woodstock in 1847. He was buried in Bungay Cemetery.

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Political offices
Preceded by Thaddeus Betts	Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut 1833–1834	Succeeded by Thaddeus Betts
Preceded by Thaddeus Betts	Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut 1835–1838	Succeeded by Charles Hawley

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