Ebenezer Stoddard

Ebenezer Stoddard was a United States representative from Connecticut. He was born in Union. He attended Woodstock Academy in 1802 and in 1803 and graduated from Brown University in 1807. After studying, he was admitted to the bar in 1810 and commenced practice in West Woodstock.
Stoddard was elected as a Democratic-Republican [Party |Democratic-Republican] to the Seventeenth Congress and reelected as an Adams-Clay Republican candidate to the 18th [United States Congress|Eighteenth Congress]. After leaving Congress, he sat in the Connecticut Senate in 1825–1827. He was the 33rd and 35th Lieutenant [Governor of Connecticut|lieutenant governor] of the state in 1833 and 1835–1837. He continued to practice law before dying in West Woodstock in 1847. He was buried in Bungay Cemetery.