Orange

KIDDER, Jefferson P.

Men of Vermont: Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters & Sons of 
Vermont. Ullery. Brattleboro: Transcript Publishing Company, 1894, part III, 
p 98

Jefferson P. KIDDER was born [no date is given] at Braintree [Orange County, 
Vermont]; was trained to agricultural pursuits, taught school, received a 
classical education, graduating at the Norwich University, and was a tutor 
therein; received in 1848 the degree of M. A. from the University of Vermont; 
studied and practiced law; was a member of the state Constitutional 
Convention in 1847; member of the state Senate of Vermont in 1847 to 1848; 
Lieutenant Governor of Vermont 1853-1854; removed to St. Paul [Ramsey County 
per 1895 Atlas], Minnesota, in 1857; was elected a provisional delegate from 
Dakota Territory while visiting there in 1859; was a member of the Minnesota 
House of Representatives in 1861, 1863, 1864. Was appointed in 1865 an 
associate justice of the Supreme Court for Dakota Territory, and removed 
there, and was re-appointed in 1869, and again in 1873, resigned after having 
discharged the duties of that office for ten years. Was elected a delegate 
from Dakota in the Forty-fourth Congress as a Republican; and was re-elected 
to the Forty-fifth Congress.

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