American public man, born in Cheshire, CT, on the 8th of November 1780, and graduated from Yale in 1797. He served in the Connecticut legislature for several years, and in 1819–21, and again in 1823–25, was a member of Congress. In 1827–33 he occupied a seat in the United States Senate. He was again in Congress in 1833–34, and then was governor of Connecticut for one term. In 1844 he was a Presidential elector. While in the Senate he offered a resolution, the purport of which was to secure the limitation of further sales of public lands to those already offered for sale, and which called forth the famous Webster-Hayne debate.
