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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—District of ColumbiaNorton Parker CHIPMAN
(1834-1924)
CHIPMAN, Norton Parker, a
Delegate from the District of Columbia; born in Milford Center,
Union County, Ohio, March 7, 1834; attended the public schools;
moved to Iowa in 1845 and entered Washington College; afterwards
attended the law school in Cincinnati; returned to Washington,
Iowa; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in that city;
entered the Union Army; commissioned major of the Second Iowa
Infantry September 23, 1861; colonel April 17, 1862; brevetted
brigadier general of Volunteers March 13, 1865; settled in
Washington, D.C.; upon the establishment of a Territorial form of
government for the District of Columbia was appointed secretary,
and subsequently was elected as a Republican a Delegate to the
Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses and served from April 21,
1871, until March 3, 1875; moved to California in 1876 and engaged
in the lumber business; member of the California State Board of
Trade and its president 1895-1906; appointed a commissioner of the
supreme court of California in April 1897; appointed presiding
justice of the district court of appeals for the third district in
1905 and was elected in November 1906 and served until his
resignation on December 18, 1922; died in San Francisco, Calif., on
February 1, 1924; interment in Cypress Lawn Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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