Mattacks, John
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, governor, was born March 4, 1777, in Hartford, Conn. He became eminent at the bar, and served several years in the Vermont state legislature and in the militia, of which he was brigadier-general in the war of 1812-15. He was elected to congress as a whig in 1820; served in 1821- 23, was defeated at the next election, and returned in 1824, serving in 1825-27.
He was judge of the superior court of Vermont in 1833-34; a member of the constitutional convention of 1835, and in 1841- 43 was for the third time in congress, declining a re-election to accept the office of governor, which he held in 1843-44. He died Aug. 14, 1847, in Peacham, Vt.