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Chaffee, Jerome Bunty

miner, congressman, United States senator, was born April 17, 1825, in Niagara county, N. Y. He served in the legislature of Colorado in 1861-63; and served as speaker of the house. In 1865 he was elected as United States senator; was elected to the forty-second and two succeeding congresses as delegate from the territory of Colorado; and in 1876 was elected United States senator from that state for the short term, ending in 1879. He died March 9, 1886, in Salem Centre, N. Y.