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Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949
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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.
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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "D," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1049 Original Sources, accessed November 22, 2024, http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=54JAR41NFBV8T18.
MLA: U.S. Congress. "D." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1049, Original Sources. 22 Nov. 2024. http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=54JAR41NFBV8T18.
Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'D' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1049. Original Sources, retrieved 22 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=54JAR41NFBV8T18.
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