Paine, Elijah
lawyer, United States senator, was born Jan. 21, 1757, in Brooklyn, Conn. In 1787 he was elected to the Vermont state legislature, and so continued until 1791, when he was appointed judge of the supreme court. He was a trustee of Dartmouth college; president of the Vermont Colonization society; and a pecuniary benefactor of the university of Vermont. He was a senator in congress from Vermont from 1795 to 1801; and in 1801 was appointed judge of the district court of Vermont, which office he held until within a month of his death, when he resigned. He died April 28, 1842, in Williamstown, Vt. /