Chauncey L. Knapp
| Chauncey Langdon Knapp | |
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Chauncey L. Knapp, Congressman from Massachusetts. 1859.
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 8th district |
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In office March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1859 |
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| Preceded by | Tappan Wentworth |
| Succeeded by | Charles R. Train |
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February 26, 1809 Berlin, Vermont |
| Died | May 31, 1898 (aged 89) Lowell, Massachusetts |
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Anti-Masonic Party Liberty Party American Party Republican Party |
| Spouse(s) | Fanny Carter |
| Profession | Newspaper editor |
Chauncey Langdon Knapp (February 26, 1809 – May 31, 1898) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Chauncey Langdon Knapp was born in Berlin, Vermont, February 26, 1809. He was trained as a printer, and became a newspaperman in Montpelier. For a number of years, he was co-proprietor and editor of the State Journal, Vermont's main Anti-Masonic Party newspaper. Interested in politics, he served as Secretary of State of Vermont from 1836-1843.
In 1843, he visited Lowell, Massachusetts and met poet John Greenleaf Whittier, at the time editor of Lowell's Middlesex Standard (the voice of the Anti-slavery Movement and the Liberty Party). Whittier invited Knapp to stay in Lowell, take over as editor, and continue the fight against slavery and for social reform in Lowell. Knapp accepted and he eventually moved from editor of the Middlesex Standard to editor of the Lowell Citizen and News. He ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a Liberty Party candidate in 1846 and as a member of the Free Soil Party in 1848. Knapp was appointed Clerk of the Massachusetts State Senate in 1851.
In 1854, Knapp ran as an anti-slavery candidate and was elected to the United States House of Representatives. He was identified with the American Party (the only major party with an anti-slavery plank) while serving in the Thirty-fourth Congress.
When the Republican Party was formed with an anti-slavery plank, Knapp joined it. He was again overwhelmingly elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1859).
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