David Plant
David Plant was a United States representative from Connecticut. Born in Stratford, Connecticut, Plant attended the Episcopal Academy in Cheshire, Connecticut, and graduated from Yale College in 1804. He studied law at the Litchfield [Law School] and was admitted to the bar in 1804. Plant practiced law in Stratford and became a judge of the probate court of Fairfield County.
Plant was a member of the Connecticut [House of Representatives] from 1817 to 1820 and served as its first Speaker of the [Connecticut House of Representatives|speaker] in 1819 and 1820. He was a Connecticut state senator in 1821 and 1822. The following year he became List of [lieutenant governors of Connecticut|Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut], a position he held until 1827.
That year he was elected as an anti-Jacksonian Member of the U.S. House of Representatives of the Twentieth Congress, which was in session from March 4, 1827, until March 3, 1829. He did not seek re-election as an Adams man in 1829 [United States House of Representatives election in Connecticut|1828], but he did receive a small number of votes as a Jacksonian candidate, as he had in the 1825 [Connecticut gubernatorial election|1825] and 1826 gubernatorial elections. Afterwards, he returned to his law practice in Connecticut. David Plant died in Stratford in 1851 and was buried in the Congregational Burying Ground.