Luke Potter Poland (November 1, 1815 – July 2, 1887) was a United States Senator and Representative from
Vermont
. Born in
Westford,
he attended the common schools and Jericho Academy. He taught at
schools and studied law, being admitted to the
bar in December 1836.
He practiced in
Morrisville
. He was register of
probate from 1839 to 1840 and was a member of the
State
constitutional convention
of 1843; in 1844 and 1845 he was
prosecuting attorney of
Lamoille County, and was a judge of the
Vermont Supreme Court from
1848 to 1860, serving as chief justice from 1860 to 1865. He
resigned from the court, and was appointed, and subsequently
elected, as a
Republican to the U.S.
Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Jacob Collamer, and served from
November 21,
1865, to
March 3,
1867. He was
then elected to the House of Representatives for the Fortieth and
to the three succeeding Congresses (
March 4,
1867-
March 3,
1875); he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection
to the Forty-fourth Congress. While in Congress, he was chairman of
the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business (Fortieth
Congress) and a member of the Committee on Revision of the Laws
(Fortieth, Forty-first and Forty-third Congresses).
Poland
became a member of the Vermont House of
Representatives in 1878 and was a trustee of the University of
Vermont
at Burlington
and of the State Agricultural College; he was also
president of the First National Bank of St. Johnsbury for twenty
years. He was again elected to the House of Representatives,
serving during the Forty-eighth Congress (
March
4,
1883-
March 3,
1885); he was not a candidate for renomination.
Luke
Poland died at his country home near Waterville
on July 2 1887 and was interred in Mount Pleasant Cemetery,
St.
Johnsbury
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