David Plant (March 29, 1783 – October 18, 1851) was a

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from

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. Born in Stratford, Connecticut, Plant attended the Episcopal Academy in

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, and graduated from

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in 1804. He studied law at the

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and was admitted to the bar in 1804. Plant practiced law in Stratford and became a judge of the

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. Plant was a member of the

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from 1817 to 1820 and served as its first

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in 1819 and 1820. He was a Connecticut state senator in 1821 and 1822. The following year he became

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, a position he held until 1827. That year he was elected as an

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Member of the

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of the Twentieth Congress, which was in session from March 4, 1827, until March 3, 1829. He did not seek re-election as an Adams man in

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, but he did receive a small number of votes as a Jacksonian candidate, as he had in the

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and

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gubernatorial elections.
David Plant
, ''Our Campaigns'' Retrieved 9/20/2020 Afterwards, he returned to his law practice in Connecticut. David Plant died in Stratford in 1851 and was buried in the Congregational Burying Ground.

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