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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsCalvin Clifford CHAFFEE
(1811-1896)
CHAFFEE, Calvin Clifford,
a Representative from Massachusetts; born at Saratoga Springs,
N.Y., on August 28, 1811; attended the common schools; studied
medicine, and was graduated from the medical school of Middlebury
College, Middlebury, Vt., in 1835; settled in Springfield, Mass.,
where he began the practice of his profession; elected on the
American Party ticket to the Thirty-fourth Congress and as a
Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3,
1859); was not a candidate for renomination in 1858; librarian of
the House of Representatives 1860-1862; settled in Washington,
D.C., and engaged in the practice of medicine until 1876, when he
moved to Springfield, Mass.; president of the Union Relief
Association 1880-1893; died in Springfield, Hampden County, Mass.,
on August 8, 1896; interment in Springfield Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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