Chase, Dudley
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Dec. 30, 1771, in Cornish, N. H. He was state's attorney for Orange county; was a member of the constitutional conventions of 1814 and 1822; was a representative from Randolph to the legislature of Vermont in 1805-12, during five years of which he was speaker.
He was again elected representative from the same town in 1823 and 1824; and was elected United States senator from Vermont from 1813 to 1819. He resigned his seat in 1817; and was chief justice of the supreme court of Vermont in 1817-21. In 1824 he was again chosen 'United States senator from 1825 to 1831. He died Feb. 23, 1846, in Randolph, Vt.