Governor of Vermont. Graduate, Middlebury College, 1811. Studied law, admitted to bar, practiced for over fifty years. Windsor Justice of the Peace and Town Clerk. County Attorney, 1831-36. State Representative, 1834-37, 1839-42. Speaker, 1836-37. President, state Whig Convention, November 1847. Convention passed resolutions against Mexican War and acquisition of territory by conquest and in favor of Wilmot Proviso. Governor, 1848-50. In elections of 1848 and 1849, selected by Legislature in accordance with state Constitution since no candidate had 50 percent of popular vote. State Senator, 1855-57. Carlos Coolidge House, built in 1806, still stands and is part of the Windsor Village Historic District.
Governor of Vermont. Graduate, Middlebury College, 1811. Studied law, admitted to bar, practiced for over fifty years. Windsor Justice of the Peace and Town Clerk. County Attorney, 1831-36. State Representative, 1834-37, 1839-42. Speaker, 1836-37. President, state Whig Convention, November 1847. Convention passed resolutions against Mexican War and acquisition of territory by conquest and in favor of Wilmot Proviso. Governor, 1848-50. In elections of 1848 and 1849, selected by Legislature in accordance with state Constitution since no candidate had 50 percent of popular vote. State Senator, 1855-57. Carlos Coolidge House, built in 1806, still stands and is part of the Windsor Village Historic District.
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