Ebenezer Stoddard (May 6, 1785 – August 19, 1847) was a United States representative from Connecticut. He was born in Union. He attended Woodstock Academy in 1802 and in 1803 and graduated from

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in 1807. After studying, he was admitted to the bar in 1810 and commenced practice in West Woodstock. Stoddard was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the

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and reelected as an Adams-Clay Republican candidate to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1825). After leaving Congress, he sat in the Connecticut Senate in 1825–1827. He was the 33rd and 35th

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of the state in 1833 and 1835–1837. He continued to practice law before dying in West Woodstock in 1847. He was buried in Bungay Cemetery.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stoddard, Ebenezer 1785 births 1847 deaths Lieutenant Governors of Connecticut Brown University alumni Connecticut state senators Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut 19th-century American politicians People from Union, Connecticut People from Woodstock, Connecticut