Ichabod Bartlett

Who was Ichabod Bartlett?

Ichabod Bartlett was a United States Representative from New Hampshire. He was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire. He received a classical education and graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover in 1808. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1811, commencing practice in Durham. He later moved to Portsmouth in 1816 and continued the practice of law.

Bartlett was the clerk of the New Hampshire Senate in 1817 and 1818. He served as the state solicitor for Rockingham County 1819-1821. In addition, he was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives 1819-1821 and served as speaker in 1821. He was elected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress and as an Adams to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses. He declined the appointment as chief justice of the court of common pleas in 1825 and then was again a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives 1830, 1838, 1851, and 1852. Failing in a bid for governorship of New Hampshire in 1832, he later served as a member of the state constitutional convention in 1850. He died in Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1853 and was buried in Harmony Grove Cemetery.