Meech, Ezra
jurist, legislator, congressman, was born July 26, 1773, in New London, Conn. He settled in Vermont, and in 1822 and 1823 was elected chief justice of Chittenden county. He was a member of the constitutional conventions of 1822 and 1826, and in 1805 and 1807 was elected to the state legislature. He was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1819 to 1821, and again from 1825 to 1827. In 1841 he was a presidential elector. He died Sept. 23, 1856, in Shelburne, Vt.