Phil Scott became the 82nd Governor of Vermont in January 2017. Previously, he was elected and served three terms (2011-2017) as Vermont’s 79th Lieutenant Governor. Prior to that role, he…

THOMAS CHITTENDEN was born in East Guilford (now Madison), Connecticut. He became a Justice of the Peace in Salisbury, Connecticut and served as a member of the Colonial Assembly from…

MOSES ROBINSON was born in Hardwick, Massachusetts and educated at Dartmouth. At the age of twenty, he moved to Bennington, Vermont and became town clerk the following year, serving in…

PAUL BRIGHAM was born in Coventry, Connecticut and settled in Norwich, Vermont as a farmer and land speculator. He became a Captain in the Connecticut Militia and was a Company…

ISAAC TICHENOR was born in Newark, New Jersey. He graduated from Princeton in 1775 and studied law in upstate New York, after which he moved to Bennington, Vermont to practice…

ISRAEL SMITH was born in Suffield, Connecticut. He graduate from Yale in 1781 and settled in Rupert, Vermont, where he was admitted to the Bar. He represented Rupert in the…

JONAS GALUSHA was born in Norwich, Connecticut. In 1775 he moved to Shaftsbury, Vermont, becoming a farmer and innkeeper and joining the local militia, in which he rose to the…

MARTIN CHITTENDEN was born in Salisbury, Connecticut and at the age of five moved with his family to Vermont, where his father later became the state's first governor. The younger…

RICHARD SKINNER was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, where he studied law. He moved to Manchester, Vermont in 1799, becoming State's Attorney for Bennington County. He also served at various times…

CORNELIUS P. VAN NESS was born in Kinderhook, New York, where he studied law. He settled in St. Albans, Vermont and in 1813 became a U.S. Collector of Customs in…

EZRA BUTLER was born in Lancaster, Massachusetts. After settling in Waterbury, Vermont, he studied law and became Town Clerk. He served a number of terms in the State House of…