Frederick E. Woodbridge

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American politician

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Field	Value
name	Frederick Enoch Woodbridge
image name	Hon. Frederick E. Woodbridge - NARA - 527187 (1).jpg
state1	Vermont
district1	1st
party	National Republican until 1840s
Republican after 1855
term_start1	March 4, 1863
term_end1	March 3, 1869
predecessor1	Eliakim Persons Walton
successor1	Charles W. Willard
office2	11th Vermont Auditor of Accounts
term2	1850-1853
governor2	Charles K. Williams
Erastus Fairbanks
predecessor2	Silas H. Hodges
successor2	William M. Pingry
office3	Member of the Vermont Senate from the Addison District
term3	1859-1861
office4	Member of the Vermont House of Representatives
term4	1849
1857–1858
office5	Mayor of Vergennes, Vermont
term5	1844-1849
office6	Member of the Vergennes City Council
term6	1843-1844
birth_date
birth_place	Vergennes, Vermont, US
death_date
death_place	Vergennes, Vermont, US
spouse	Mary Parkhurst Woodbridge
children	Enoch Day Woodbridge
profession	Politician, Lawyer
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Biography

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Woodbridge was born in Vergennes, Vermont, son of Enoch D. Woodbridge and Clara (Strong) Woodbridge. His grandfather Enoch Woodbridge served as Chief Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, and his grandfather Samuel Strong and great-grandfather John Strong, were prominent military and political leaders of early Vermont. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1840. He studied law with his father and was admitted to the bar in 1843. He began the practice of law in Vergennes.

Woodbridge was elected as a city councilor for two years and the mayor of Vergennes for five. He later served as a member of the Vermont House of Representatives in 1849, 1857 and 1858, and was the Vermont Auditor of Accounts from 1850 until 1852. He was a prosecuting attorney from 1854 to 1858. He engaged in the construction of railroads and was vice-president of the Rutland and Washington Railroad. Woodbridge served in the Vermont Senate in 1860 and 1861, serving as president pro tempore in the latter year.{{cite web|url= http://www.leg.state.vt.us/HouseClerk/History%20of%20Elected%20Officials%20Site/Vermont%20Senate%20Presidents%20Pro%20Tempore.htm |title = Vermont Senate Presidents Pro Tempore|publisher= Vermont Legislature |access-date= December 26, 2012}}

Woodbridge was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1862, serving from 1863 to 1869.{{cite web|url= http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/frederick_woodbridge/411860 |title = Rep. Frederick Woodbridge |publisher= Govtrack.us |access-date= December 26, 2012}} He was a major proponent of the Expatriation Act of 1868.

After leaving Congress, Woodbridge resumed practicing law in Vergennes and became mayor in 1879. Stephen Bates, his coachman and an emancipated slave, served as sheriff of Vergennes for 25 years.

Woodbridge died in Vergennes on April 25, 1888. He is interred in Prospect Cemetery in Vergennes.

Personal life

Woodbridge was married to Mary Parkhurst Woodbridge. Their son Enoch Day Woodbridge was a surgeon at Bellevue Hospital.

References

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Grand Lodge of Vermont. (1879). "Records of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of Vermont". The Free Press Association.
United States Congress. (2005). "Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005: The Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States, from the First Through the One Hundred Eighth Congresses, March 4, 1789, to January 3, 2005". Government Printing Office.
Proctor, Redfield and Charles H. Davenport. (1894). "Men of Vermont: An Illustrated Biographical History of Vermonters and Sons of Vermont". Transcript Publishing Company.
"Frederick E. Woodbridge". Vermont in the Civil War.
"Woodbridge, Frederick Enoch (1818-1888)". The Political Graveyard.
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Epp, Henry. (2021-02-08). "Reporter Debrief: Meet Stephen Bates, Vt.'s First Black Sheriff In Vergennes".
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Yale University. Class of 1868. (1914). "History of the class of 1868: Yale College, 1864-1914". The Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor press.

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