Dudley Chase

{{Short description|American judge and senator (1771-1846)}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Dudley Chase |jr/sr = United States Senator |state = Vermont |term_start1 = March 4, 1825 |term_end1 = March 3, 1831 |predecessor1 = William A. Palmer |successor1 = Samuel Prentiss |term_start2 = March 4, 1813 |term_end2 = November 3, 1817 |predecessor2 = Stephen R. Bradley |successor2 = James Fisk |office3 = Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court |term_start3 = 1817 |term_end3 = 1820 |predecessor3 = Richard Skinner |successor3 = Cornelius P. Van Ness |office4 = Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives |term_start4 = 1808 |term_end4 = 1813 |predecessor4 = Aaron Leland |successor4 = Daniel Chipman |office5 = Member of the Vermont House of Representatives from Randolph |term_start5 = 1823 |term_end5 = 1825 |predecessor5 = Shubael Converse |successor5 = Lebbeus Egerton |term_start6 = 1805 |term_end6 = 1813 |predecessor6 = James Tarbox |successor6 = James Tarbox |office7 = State's Attorney of Orange County, Vermont |term_start7 = 1803 |term_end7 = 1812 |predecessor7 = Charles Bulkley |successor7 = Elisha Hotchkiss |birth_date = {{birth date|1771|12|30}} |birth_place = Cornish, New Hampshire |death_date = {{death date and age|1846|2|23|1771|12|30}} |death_place = Randolph Center, Vermont, US |party = Democratic-Republican,<br/>National Republican |education = Dartmouth College |spouse = Olivia Brown (m. 1796) |relations = Philander Chase (brother)<br/>Salmon P. Chase (nephew)<br/>Dudley Chase Denison (nephew) |profession = Attorney }} '''Dudley Chase''' (December 30, 1771{{spaced ndash}}February 23, 1846) was a U.S. Senator from Vermont who served from 1813 to 1817 and again from 1825 to 1831. He was born in Cornish, New Hampshire.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_jWo7AQAAIAAJ/page/n274  John Lauris Blake], A Biographical Dictionary, 1859, page 271</ref>

==Career== After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1791,<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ncfc202K3OYC&pg=PA83 Gerald W. McFarland], The "Counterfeit" Man: The True Story of the Boorn-Colvin Murder Case, 1993, page 83</ref> he studied law under Lot Hall in Westminster, Vermont.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hemenway |first=Abby Maria |date=1871 |title=The Vermont Historical Gazetteer |volume=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xkEOAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA1025 |location=Burlington, VT |publisher=A. M. Hemenway |page=1025 |ref={{sfnRef|''The Vermont Historical Gazetteer''}}}}</ref> In 1793, he was admitted to the Vermont bar.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ZvBjhJr9Ev0C&pg=PA201 William R. Denslow, Harry S. Truman], 10,000 Famous Freemasons, Part One (A to J), 2004, page 201</ref>

Chase lived, farmed, and practiced law in Randolph, Vermont.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=eJUbAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1051 Abby Maria Hemenway], The Vermont Historical Gazetteer, Volume 2, 1871, page 1051</ref> He was Orange County State's Attorney from 1803 to 1812.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ACw7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA104 Vermont Historical Society], Annual Meetings Proceedings, 1920, page 92</ref> He was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1805 to 1812, serving as Speaker from 1808 to 1812.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=yLA0AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA331 Jared Sparks, Francis Bowen, George Partridge Sanger], American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge, Volume 18, 1846, page 331</ref> He was elected to the state constitutional conventions in 1814 and 1822.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_sju7AAAAIAAJ/page/n60  George Thomas Chapman], Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College, 1867, page 58</ref>

Chase was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Democratic-Republican in 1812 and served from 1813 to 1817, when he resigned.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=hZcyAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA245 Zadock Thompson], History of the State of Vermont, 1833, page 245</ref> He was the first ever Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, serving from 1816 to 1817.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=c-D3nXk5NPsC&pg=PA2241 William F. Patry], Copyright Law and Practice, Volume 3, 1994, page 2241</ref>

After resigning in 1817, he returned to Vermont, where he was chief justice of the Vermont Supreme Court until 1821.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tt2_3hTQxFMC&pg=PA57 Prentiss Cutler Dodge], Encyclopedia of Vermont Biography, 1912, page 57</ref> He served as a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1823 to 1824.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=_L0MAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA111 Jacob G. Ullery], Men of Vermont Illustrated, 1894, page 111</ref>

He returned to national politics in 1825 when he was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the U.S. Senate, serving until 1831.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/lifeandpublicse01schugoog/page/n27  Jacob William Schuckers], The Life and Public Services of Salmon Portland Chase], 1874, page 3</ref>

Dudley Chase died in Randolph on February 23, 1846.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=6hIbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA32 Niles' National Register], Hon. Dudley Chase Died, March 14, 1846</ref>

==Family== Dudley Chase was the son of Dudley & Alice (Corbett) Chase, an uncle of Salmon P. Chase<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=WWGl8tEq6JcC&pg=PA21 John Niven], Salmon P. Chase: A Biography, 1995, page 21</ref> (Treasury Secretary, 1861–1864 and Chief Justice of the United States, 1864–1873) and Dudley Chase Denison<ref>[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_3wjt3eoLPF4C/page/n445  Hiram Carleton], Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont, 1903, page 356</ref> (a U.S. Representative from Vermont). He was the brother of Philander Chase.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=V7LVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA588 Philander Chase], Reminiscences of Bishop Chase, 1843, page 588</ref>

==Home== Dudley Chase's Randolph Center home still stands and is a private residence.<ref>[http://www.ourherald.com/news/2012-06-14/Communities/Randolph_Center.html Mim Herwig], Randolph Center Notes, Randolph Herald, June 14, 2012</ref>

==Attempts to locate portrait== Chase is one of between 40 and 50 U.S. Senators for whom the Senate historian has no portrait, photograph, or other likeness on file.<ref>[https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/Missing_Images.htm U.S. Senate Photo Historian], Senators Not Represented in Senate Historical Office Photo Collection, accessed July 7, 2012</ref> According to Randolph historian and Chase descendant Harriet M. Chase, no portrait of Dudley Chase was ever painted. Other efforts to locate a likeness of Dudley Chase have also proved unsuccessful.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rOA8AAAAIAAJ&q=dudley+chase Vermont Bar Association], Annual Meeting Proceedings, 1935, page 90</ref>

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==External resources== {{CongBio|C000325}} *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070312043424/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~speccoll/chapman/chapman_page_58.shtml Dartmouth Alumni Bio from 1867]

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