Langdon, John
congressman, governor, United States senator, was born June 25, 1741, in Portsmouth, N. H. In 1775 and 1776 he was chosen a delegate to congress from New Hampshire. He commanded a company of volunteers in Vermont and Rhode Island. In his own state he was in 1776 and 1777 speaker of the house of representatives and judge of the court of common pleas. In 1783 he was again appointed a delegate to congress; and was afterwards repeatedly a member of the legislature, and speaker. In 1788 he was chosen governor of the state; and from 1789 to 1801 was senator of the United States. From 1805 to 1808, and again in 1810 and 1811 he was governor of the state. He died Sept. 18, 1819, in Portsmouth, N. H. LANGDON, WILLIAM CHAUNCEY. clergyman, author, was born Aug. 19, 1831, in Burlington, Vt. He is an episcopal clergyman of Bedford, Pa.; and the author of The Defects of our Practical Catholicity; Plain Papers for Parish Priests and Peoples; The Catholic Reform Movement in the Italian Church; and Conflict of Practice and Principle in the American Church. He died in 1895.