Slade, William
journalist, lawyer, Jurist, congressman, governor, author, was born May 9, 1786, in Cornwall, Vt. In 1815 he was elected secretary of state of Vermont, which office he held eight years, during six of which he officiated as judge of the Addison county court. He was subsequently state's attorney for the same county. He was a representative in congress from Vermont from 1831 to 1843; and on his retirement from congress was elected reporter of the decisions of the supreme court of Vermont. In 1844 he was chosen governor of Vermont; and was subsequently made secretary of the national board of popular education. In 1823 he published the Vermont State Papers; in 1825 the Statutes of Vermont; and in 1844 a volume of Vermont Reports. He died Jan. 18, 1859, in Middlebury, Vt.