Ichabod Bartlett

Ichabod Bartlett
Ichabod Bartlett
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives; from New Hampshire's At-large district
	In office; July 24, 1786 – October 19, 1853
Personal details
Born	Ichabod Bartlett

Ichabod Bartlett (July 24, 1786 – October 19, 1853) was a United States Representative from New Hampshire.

Early life

Bartlett was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire.^[1] He received a classical education and graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover in 1808. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1811, commencing practice in Durham. He later moved to Portsmouth in 1816 and continued the practice of law.

Bartlett was the clerk of the New Hampshire Senate in 1817 and 1818. He served as the state solicitor for Rockingham County 1819-1821. In addition, he was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives 1819-1821 and served as speaker in 1821. He was elected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and as an Adams to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1829). He declined the appointment as chief justice of the court of common pleas in 1825 and then was again a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives 1830, 1838, 1851, and 1852. Failing in a bid for governorship of New Hampshire in 1832, he later served as a member of the state constitutional convention in 1850. He died in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1853 and was buried in Harmony Grove Cemetery.

References

^ Bartlett, Thomas Edward (1892), The Bartletts: Ancestral, Genealogical, Biographical, Historical. Comprising an account of the American Progenitors of the Bartlett Family, with Special Reference to the Descendants of John Bartlett, of Weymouth and Cumberland, New Haven, Connecticut: Press of the Stafford Printing Co., p. 94.