Background
Chauncey Fitch Cleveland was born on February 16, 1799 at Hampton, Connecticut, United States, the son of Silas and Lois (Sharpe) Cleveland.
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Chauncey Fitch Cleveland was born on February 16, 1799 at Hampton, Connecticut, United States, the son of Silas and Lois (Sharpe) Cleveland.
Cleveland received a common-school education and studied law with Daniel Frost of Canterbury, Connecticut, for three years. In August 1819 he was admitted to the Windham County bar.
Cleveland became clerk of the probate court (1827), probate judge (1829), prosecuting attorney (1833), and state bank commissioner (1837). Between 1826 and 1866 he was twelve times elected to the General Assembly from the town of Hampton and was speaker of the House in 1835, 1836, and 1863. He was elected the governor of Connecticut in 1842 and 1843. During the Dorr insurrection in Rhode Island, he twice refused to honor the requisition of Charter Governor King for Thomas W. Dorr, charged with treason against the State of Rhode Island, on the ground that Dorr was a political refugee and not a fugitive from justice. Nominated for Congress, he was defeated in 1838 and 1840 but was elected to the Thirty- first and Thirty-second Congresses, where he defended the United States Supreme Court, asked that the franking privilege of members of Congress be curtailed.
He acted as one of the vice-presidents of the Republican conventions of 1856 and 1860, and served as Republican presidential elector in 1860. In the following year he was appointed by Governor Buckingham to the delegation representing Connecticut in the peace conference that met in Washington, February 4-27, 1861, at the invitation of the State of Virginia. He abandoned his law practise about 1879 and died at Hampton of apoplexy at the age of eighty-eight.
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While in U. S. Congress, Cleveland opposed Clay’s compromise measures of 1850 including the Fugitive Slave Bill. He was strongly anti-slavery, twice receiving the nomination of Free-Soilers for Congress, simultaneously with the Democratic nomination, and went so far in obeying the resolutions of the Connecticut legislature against the extension of slavery as to compare Daniel Webster with Benedict Arnold. A leader of the Democrats in Connecticut, he bolted his party in the mid-fifties and joined the new Republican party. After the war he returned to the Democratic fold and was a Democratic presidential elector in 1876.
Cleveland was married, first, to Diantha Hovey, December 13, 1821, by whom he had two children. She died, October 29, 1867, and on January 27, 1869, he was married to Helen Cornelia Litchfield.