MEECH, EZRA, a Representative from Vermont; born in New London, Conn., July 26,
1773; moved to Hinesburg, Vt., in 1785; attended the common schools; engaged in
the fur trade in the Northwest and in ship-timber contracts in Canada; moved to
Shelburne, Vt., and engaged in agricultural pursuits and stock raising; member
of the state house of representatives 1805-1807; elected as a Republican to the
Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1810-March 3, 1821); delegate to the state
constitutional conventions in 1822 and 1826; chief justice of Chittenden County
Court in 1822 and 1823; elected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congress
(March 4, 1825-March 3, 1827); unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor
of Vermont in 1830, 1831, 1832, and 1833; presidential elector on the Whig
ticket in 1840; resumed agricultural pursuits; died in Shelburne, Chittenden
County, Vt., on September 23, 1856; interment in Shelburne Cemetery.
