Chaffee, Calvin Clifford

Life Span
to
    Full name
    Calvin Clifford Chaffee
    Place of Birth
    Burial Place
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Free State
    No. of Siblings
    7
    No. of Spouses
    2
    No. of Children
    2
    Family
    Calvin Chaffee (father), Elizabeth Hall Chaffee (mother), Clara Nourse (first wife), Irene Sanford Emerson (second wife - 1850)
    Education
    Other
    Other Education
    Middlebury College, VT
    Occupation
    Politician
    Doctor, Dentist or Nurse
    Church or Religious Denomination
    Baptist
    Other
    Other Religion
    Congregationalist
    Political Parties
    Republican
    American Party (Know Nothings or Nativists)
    Other Affiliations
    Abolitionists (Anti-Slavery Society)
    Nativists (Know Nothings)
    Government
    US House of Representatives

    Calvin Clifford Chaffee (Congressional Biographical Directory)

    Reference
    CHAFFEE, Calvin Clifford, a Representative from Massachusetts; born at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., on August 28, 1811; attended the common schools; studied medicine, and was graduated from the medical school of Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., in 1835; settled in Springfield, Mass., where he began the practice of his profession; elected on the American Party ticket to the Thirty-fourth Congress and as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1859); was not a candidate for renomination in 1858; librarian of the House of Representatives 1860-1862; settled in Washington, D.C., and engaged in the practice of medicine until 1876, when he moved to Springfield, Mass.; president of the Union Relief Association 1880-1893; died in Springfield, Hampden County, Mass., on August 8, 1896; interment in Springfield Cemetery.
    “Chaffee, Calvin Clifford,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000270.
    How to Cite This Page: "Chaffee, Calvin Clifford," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/5352.