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Aaron Leland

LELAND, Aaron, clergyman, born in Holliston, Massachusetts, 28 May, 1761; died in Chester, Vermont, 25 August, 1833. He received a common school education, was ordained as a Baptist minister about 1786. settled in Chester, Vermont, and built up a church from which sprang those at Andover and Grafton, Massachusetts, Weathersfield and Jamaica, Vermont, and other places. He was an earnest Jeffersonian Democrat, sat in the legislature from 1801 till 1811, during which period he was thrice elected speaker, was a councillor for four years, and for five successive years elected lieutenant-governor of Vermont. He also served as an assistant justice of the county court for eighteen years. In 1828 he was proposed as a candidate for governor, but declined the nomination, being unwilling to desert the pulpit, in which he was an effective orator.

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