Aaron Leland

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American politician

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Field	Value
name	Aaron Leland
image	File:Aaron Leland.jpg
order1	7th
office1	Lieutenant Governor of Vermont
term_start1	1822
term_end1	1827
governor1	Richard Skinner
Cornelius P. Van Ness
Ezra Butler
predecessor1	William Cahoon
successor1	Henry Olin
order2	19th
office2	Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives
term_start2	1804
term_end2	1808
predecessor2	Theophilus Harrington
successor2	Dudley Chase
office3	Member of the Vermont House of Representatives from Chester
term_start3	1813
term_end3	1815
predecessor3	William Hosmer
successor3	Joshua Leland
term_start4	1809
term_end4	1811
predecessor4	Thomas S. Fullerton
successor4	William Hosmer
term_start5	1801
term_end5	1808
predecessor5	Jabez Sargeant
successor5	Thomas S. Fullerton
birth_date	May 28, 1761
birth_place	Holliston, Massachusetts, U.S.
death_date
death_place	Chester, Vermont, U.S.
resting_place	Brookside Cemetery, Chester, Vermont
party	Democratic-Republican
profession	Clergyman
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Biography

Aaron Leland was born in Holliston, Massachusetts, on May 28, 1761. He was ordained as a Baptist minister in 1785 and settled in Chester, Vermont, in 1786. Leland was a successful pastor and preacher, building up a church which gave rise to congregations in Andover and Grafton, Massachusetts, and Weathersfield and Jamaica, Vermont.

Active in politics as a Democratic-Republican, Leland served in local offices including Town Clerk and Selectman, and was Windsor County Assistant Judge for eighteen years. He also served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1801 to 1808 and 1809 to 1811, and was Speaker from 1804 to 1808. He was also a member of the Governor's Council and served as one of Vermont's presidential electors in 1820.

Leland served as Lieutenant Governor from 1822 to 1827. He declined to be nominated for Governor in 1828, preferring instead to continue serving as Pastor of his church. Though he had been a Mason, in the late 1820s Leland became active in Vermont's Antimasonic movement. He died in Chester, Vermont, on August 25, 1832, and was buried in Chester's Brookside Cemetery.

Leland was the recipient of honorary degrees from Middlebury College and Brown University.

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[https://books.google.com/books?id=0h47AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22aaron+leland%22+holliston+massachusetts&pg=PA240 Annals of the American Pulpit], by William Buell Sprague, 1860, page 240 to 243
[https://books.google.com/books?id=5O3OAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22aaron+leland%22+chester+vermont&pg=PA99 Magazine article, Vermont Baptists], The Baptist Home Mission Monthly, April, 1885, page 99
[https://books.google.com/books?id=v60LAAAAIAAJ&dq=%22leland+aaron%22+chester+vermont&pg=PA683 Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography], Volume 3, 1887, page 683
[https://books.google.com/books?id=ApJPAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22leland+aaron%22+chester+vermont&pg=PA341 Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature], by John McClintock, James Strong, Volume 5, 1873, page 341
[https://books.google.com/books?id=ULmlDG8KLjYC&dq=%22aaron+leland%22+chester+vermont&pg=PA157 History of the Town of Rockingham, Vermont], by Lyman Simpson Hayes, 1907, page 157
[https://books.google.com/books?id=dGiZUCjvYkIC&dq=%22aaron+leland%22+chester+vermont&pg=RA2-PA53 History of Vermont], by Zadock Thompson, 1842, page 53
[https://books.google.com/books?id=NccgAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22aaron+leland%22+chester+vermont&pg=PA211 Records of the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont], published by E. P. Walton, Montpelier, Volume 6, 1878, page 211
[https://books.google.com/books?id=eFIZAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22aaron+leland%22+anti+mason&pg=PA263 Opinions on Speculative Masonry], by [[James Creighton Odiorne]], 1830, page 263
[https://books.google.com/books?id=2JtQAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22aaron+leland%22+died+1832&pg=PA678 History of Windsor County, Vermont], edited by Lewis Cass Aldrich and Frank R. Holmes, 1891, page 678
[https://books.google.com/books?id=gRQ9AAAAYAAJ&dq=%22leland+aaron%22+chester+vermont&pg=PA514 Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography], edited by Thomas William Herringshaw, Volume 3, 1914, page 514
[https://books.google.com/books?id=mDEbAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22leland+aaron%22+chester+vermont&pg=PA543 Historical Catalogue of Brown University], published by the university, 1905, page 543

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