List of Vermonters for Profile Development

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Vermonters for Profile Development

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• Thomas Chittenden (1730–1797) - East Guilford, Connecticut Colony - First Governor of the Republic of Vermont.
• Jonathan Hunt (1738–1823) - Northfield, Massachusetts - Early Vermont political leader.
• Ethan Allen (1738–1789) - Litchfield, Connecticut - Revolutionary War hero, captured Fort Ticonderoga.
• Moses Robinson (1741–1813) - Hardwick, Massachusetts - Second Governor of the Republic of Vermont and later a U.S. Senator.
• Matthew Lyon (1749–1822) - County Wicklow, Ireland - U.S. Congressman, tried under the Alien and Sedition Acts.
• Ira Allen (1751–1814) - Cornwall, Connecticut - Founder of the University of Vermont, brother of Ethan Allen.
• Nathaniel Chipman (1752–1843) - Salisbury, Connecticut - Early Vermont jurist and U.S. Senator.
• Stephen R. Bradley (1754–1830) - Wallingford, Connecticut - U.S. Senator and first President pro tempore of the Senate.
• Isaac Tichenor (1754–1838) - Newark, New Jersey - Third Governor of Vermont and later U.S. Senator.
• Nathan Hale (1755–1780) - Coventry, Connecticut - Served as Vermont’s Secretary of State during the Republic period.
• Simon Stevens (1760–1828) - Claremont, New Hampshire - Early Vermont lawyer and Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives.
• Nathaniel Niles (1777–1828) - South Kingston, Rhode Island - U.S. Congressman and Vermont Supreme Court justice.
• Samuel Shaw (1778–1827) - Boston, Massachusetts - U.S. Congressman, Democratic-Republican party member.
• Heman Allen (1779–1852) - Poultney, Vermont - U.S. Congressman and diplomat.
• Cornelius P. Van Ness (1782–1852) - Kinderhook, New York - Governor of Vermont and U.S. Minister to Spain.
• William Czar Bradley (1782–1867) - Westminster, Vermont - U.S. Congressman and Vermont Attorney General.
• Asa Lyon (1783–1841) - Pomfret, Vermont - U.S. Congressman and clergyman. -- Shouldn't this be Asa Lyon (1763-1841)?
• William A. Slade (1786–1859) - Cornwall, Connecticut - 11th Governor of Vermont, anti-slavery advocate.
• Samuel C. Crafts (1788–1853) - Woodstock, Vermont - 14th Governor of Vermont and U.S. Congressman.
• Daniel Azro Ashley Buck (1789–1869) - Norwich, Vermont - U.S. Congressman and U.S. Attorney for Vermont.
• Horatio Seymour, Sr. (1791–1827) - Litchfield, Connecticut - Speaker of the Vermont State Senate.
• Thaddeus Stevens (1792–1868) - Danville, Vermont - U.S. Congressman, leader of the Radical Republicans.
• Solomon Foot (1802–1866) - Cornwall, Vermont - U.S. Senator and President pro tempore of the Senate during the Civil War.
• Brigham Young (1801–1877) - Whitingham, Vermont - Founder of Salt Lake City, key figure in the Latter Day Saint movement.
• John Deere (1804–1886) - Rutland, Vermont - Invented the steel plow, founded Deere & Company.
• Justin Smith Morrill (1810–1898) - Strafford, Vermont - Authored the Morrill Land-Grant Acts.
• Henry Jarvis Raymond (1820–1869) - Lima, New York - Founder of The New York Times, attended the University of Vermont.
• Matthew H. Carpenter (1824–1881) - Moretown, Vermont - U.S. Senator from Wisconsin.
• George F. Edmunds (1828–1919) - Richmond, Vermont - U.S. Senator known for the Edmunds Act.
• Chester A. Arthur (1829–1886) - Fairfield, Vermont - 21st President of the United States.
• Ezra Meeker (1830–1928) - Huntsville, Ohio - Oregon Trail pioneer and advocate.
• Redfield Proctor (1831–1908) - Proctorsville, Vermont - U.S. Senator and Secretary of War.
• Horatio Seymour (1834–1906) - Middlebury, Vermont - Union Army General and Medal of Honor recipient.
• George Dewey (1837–1917) - Montpelier, Vermont - U.S. Admiral in the Spanish-American War.
• Calvin Coolidge (1872–1933) - Plymouth Notch, Vermont - 30th President of the United States.
• Warren Austin (1877–1962) - Highgate, Vermont - First U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations.
• Ralph Flanders (1880–1970) - Barnet, Vermont - U.S. Senator, initiated the censure of Senator Joseph McCarthy.
• John L. Lewis (1880–1969) - Lucas, Iowa - Labor leader, attended high school in Vermont.
• George Aiken (1892–1984) - Dummerston, Vermont - Governor and U.S. Senator known for the Aiken Report.
• Larry Gardner (1886–1976) - Enosburg Falls, Vermont - Professional baseball player.
• Consuelo Northrop Bailey (1899–1976) - Fairfield, Vermont - First female Lieutenant Governor in the U.S.
• Harold J. Arthur (1904–1971) - Whitehall, New York - Governor of Vermont.
• Philip Hoff (1924–2018) - Turners Falls, Massachusetts - Governor of Vermont.
• Elmer Towns (1932–2022) - Savannah, New York - Co-founder of Liberty University.
• Jim Jeffords (1934–2014) - Rutland, Vermont - U.S. Senator, switched from Republican to Independent.