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DAGGETT, David, a Senator from Connecticut; born in Attleboro, Mass., December 31, 1764; pursued preparatory studies and was graduated from Yale College, New Haven, Conn., in 1783; taught in a private school and also in the Hopkins Grammar School; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1786 and commenced practice in New Haven, Conn.; member of the State house of representatives 1791-1796, and served as speaker 1794-1796; member of the State council, or upper house, in 1797; Federalist presidential elector in 1804, 1808, and 1812; again a member of the State house of representatives in 1805; again served in the State council from 1809 until 1813, when he was elected a Senator of the United States; State’s attorney for New Haven County 1811-1813; elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Chauncey Goodrich and served from May 13, 1813, to March 3, 1819; was not a candidate for reelection; resumed the practice of law; became an associate instructor in the New Haven Law School in 1824; was appointed in 1826 to the Kent professorship of law in Yale College, in which capacity ha served until 1848; judge of the State supreme court 1826-1832, and then served as chief judge until 1834; mayor of New Haven in 1828, and held other municipal offices; retired from public life; died in New Haven, Conn., on April 12, 1851; interment in Grove Street Cemetery.