Elbert Sidney Brigham was a United States. Representative from Vermont.
Background
Brigham was born in Saint Albans, Franklin County, Vermont, son of Sanford J. Brigham and Sarah J. (Bronson) Brigham, and was a descendant of Thomas Brigham and Edmund Rice, early immigrants to Massachusetts Bay Colony. He married Anna S. Hazen, daughter of Stephen Hazen and Harriet (Congdon) Hazen, on 2 October 1906 at Saint Albans, Vermont.
Education
Brigham attended the grade schools, and graduated from Saint Albans High School in 1898 and from Middlebury (Vermont) College in 1903.
Career
Brigham engaged in farming and the breeding of dairy cattle during his whole lifetime. He was the first farmer with 100-cow herd to average more than 600 pounds of butterfat in one year. He was Auditor for the town of Saint Albans in 1911 and 1912, and state commissioner of agriculture from 1913 to 1924.
As well as being a Trustee of Middlebury College 1922-1960, he served as director on the National Life Insurance Company in 1925.
Brigham was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-ninth, Seventieth, and Seventy-first Congresses, and served from March 4, 1925 to March 3, 1931. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1930.
He was president of National Life Insurance Company, Montpelier, Vermont from 1937 to 1948. He was also president of Franklin County Savings Bank and Trust Company, Saint Albans, Vermont from 1944 to 1957 and chairman of the board from 1957 to 1962.
Brigham died in Saint Albans City, Vermont, on July 5, 1962.
He is interred at Saint Albans Bay Cemetery, Saint Albans Town, Vermont.
Membership
He was a member of the National Agricultural Advisory Committee and of the United States Food Administration, Washington, District of Columbia, in 1918. A member of Reconstruction Finance Corporation in 1932, Brigham then served as chairman of Vermont Advisory Banking Board from 1933 to 1936.