Isaac Tichenor
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Isaac Tichenor (February 8, 1754 - December 11, 1838). Tichenor was an early governor of Vermont and also served as a jurist and in the United States Senate.
Tichenor was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1754. He graduated from Princeton University in 1775 and moved for a short while to Schenectady, New York. He moved to Bennington, Vermont, in 1777 and served in legislative, advisory, and judicial offices in Vermont for two decades. In 1789, he received a law degree from Dartmouth College. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1796. He served there only briefly, as he was elected Governor of Vermont in 1979, remaining until his succession by Jonas Galusha in 1809. In 1815, he returned to the Senate, where he served until 1821. He died in Bennington in 1838.