Prentiss, Samuel
lawyer, jurist, state senator, was born March 31, 1782, in Stonington, Conn. In 1824 and 1825 he represented Montpelier, Vt., in the state legislature; and in 1829 was elected chief justice of the supreme court of the state. He was a senator in congress from Vermont from 1831 to 1842. In 1842 he was appointed judge of the federal district court in Vermont, which office he held at the time of his death. He died Jan. 15, 1857, in Montpelier, Vt. was