Isaac Tichenor

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Isaac Tichenor
United States Senator from Vermont
In office March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1821
Preceded by	Jonathan Robinson
Succeeded by	Horatio Seymour
In office October 18, 1796 – October 17, 1797
Preceded by	Moses Robinson
Succeeded by	Nathaniel Chipman
3rd and 5th Governor of Vermont
In office October 14, 1808 – October 14, 1809
Lieutenant	Paul Brigham
Preceded by	Israel Smith
Succeeded by	Jonas Galusha
In office October 16, 1797 – October 9, 1807
Lieutenant	Paul Brigham
Preceded by	Paul Brigham
Succeeded by	Israel Smith
7th Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives
In office 1783–1784
Preceded by	Increase Moseley
Succeeded by	Nathaniel Niles
Personal details
Born	(1754-02-08)February 8, 1754 Newark, New Jersey
Died	Bennington, Vermont
Political party	Federalist
Spouse(s)	Elizabeth
Profession	Jurist and a United States Senator

Isaac Tichenor (February 8, 1754 – December 11, 1838) was an American lawyer and politician. He served as the third and fifth Governor of Vermont and United States Senator from Vermont.

Biography

Tichenor was born in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Princeton University in 1775 and moved for a short while to Schenectady, New York where he studied law.

Career

In 1777, Tichenor moved to Bennington, Vermont and served as an Assistant Commissary General during the American Revolution. He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1781 to 1784 and served as Speaker of the House in 1783. He was an agent from the Vermont Republic to the Continental Congress, and presented Vermont's request for admission to the Union from 1782 to 1789.

After Vermont's admission to the Union in 1791, Tichenor ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the United States House of Representatives against Matthew Lyon and Israel Smith, receiving 29% of the vote in the first round. He was an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court from 1791 to 1794, and Chief Justice in 1795 and 1796.

In 1796 he was elected to fill the unexpired term of Moses Robinson in the United States Senate beginning on October 18, 1796. He was re-elected to a full six-year term to begin on March 4, 1797, but he resigned on October 17, 1797, when he was elected Governor of Vermont.

Tichenor was a member of the Federalist Party; when that party dominated the federal government in the 1790s many leading politicians in Vermont joined the Democratic-Republican Party and opposed a strong federal government at the national level. Despite dominating the Governor's office for a decade, Tichenor's elections reflected the decline of the Federalist Party as a whole, as he won by increasingly narrow margins. After his last consecutive victory in 1806, he lost in 1807, won narrowly won 1808, and lost in 1809, 1810, and 1817 by increasing margins.

In 1815, Tichenor returned to the United States Senate, where he served until 1821. By the end of his term the Federalist Party had ceased to exist.

Death

After completing his Senate term, Tichenor lived in retirement in Bennington. He died in Bennington on December 11, 1838, and is interred at Bennington Village Cemetery, Bennington, Bennington County, Vermont.

Further reading

• Crockett, Walter H., "Isaac Tichenor", Vermonters: A Book of Biographies, Brattleboro: Stephen Daye Press, 1931, pp. 220–223.

External links

• Isaac Tichenor at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• govtrack.us
• The Political Graveyard
• National Governors Association
• Find A Grave
• Vermont History and Genealogy: Men of Vermont – Isaac Tichenor

Political offices
Preceded by Paul Brigham	Governor of Vermont 1797–1807	Succeeded by Israel Smith
Preceded by Israel Smith	Governor of Vermont 1808–1809	Succeeded by Jonas Galusha
United States Senate
Preceded by Moses Robinson	U.S. Senator (Class 1) from Vermont October 18, 1796 – October 17, 1797 Served alongside: Elijah Paine	Succeeded by Nathaniel Chipman
Preceded by Jonathan Robinson	U.S. Senator (Class 1) from Vermont March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1821 Served alongside: Dudley Chase, James Fisk, William A. Palmer	Succeeded by Horatio Seymour

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