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Senate Years of Service: 1855-1857; 1857-1865 Party: Opposition; Republican
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COLLAMER, Jacob, a Representative and a Senator from Vermont; born in Troy, N.Y., January 8,
1791; moved with his father to Burlington, Vt.; attended the common schools, and graduated from the
University of Vermont at Burlington in 1810; served in the War of 1812; studied law; admitted to the
bar in 1813 and practiced in Woodstock, Vt., from 1813 to 1833; member, State house of
representatives 1821, 1822, 1827, 1828; States attorney for Windsor County 1822-1824; judge of
the superior court 1833-1842; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth, and Thirtieth
Congresses (March 4, 1843-March 3, 1849); chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Twenty-eighth
Congress), Committee on Public Lands (Thirtieth Congress); appointed Postmaster General by
President Zachary Taylor 1849-1850; again judge of the superior court of Vermont 1850-1854;
elected in 1855 as a Republican to the United States Senate; reelected in 1861 and served from
March 4, 1855, until his death in Woodstock, Windsor County, Vt., November 9, 1865; chairman,
Committee on Engrossed Bills (Thirty-fourth Congress), Committee on Post Office and Post Roads
(Thirty-seventh through Thirty-ninth Congresses), Committee on Library (Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth
Congresses); interment in River Street Cemetery.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography;
U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses for Jacob Collamer. 39th Cong., 1st sess.,
1865-1866. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1866.
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