TICHENOR, Isaac, jurist, born in Newark, New Jersey, 8 February, 1754; died in Bennington, Vermont, 11 December, 1838. He was graduated at Princeton in 1775, began the study of law in Schenectady, New York, and in 1777 was appointed assistant commissary general and stationed at Bennington. He remained there, was admitted to the bar, practised law, and took an active part in public affairs, serving as a member of the Vermont house of representatives in 1781-'4, agent of the state to congress in 1782, a state councillor in 1787-'92, a commissioner for the arrangement of the territorial dispute with New York in 1791, and a member of the state board of censors from 1792 till 1813. In 1791 he was appointed a judge of the supreme court of Vermont, becoming chief justice in 1795. In the following year he resigned to take his seat in the United States senate on 6 December, 1796. He was elected governor of Vermont, retiring from the senate on 10 November, 1797, and was continued in that office by re-election till 1807. In 1808 he was again elected governor and served one more term. In 1815 he was sent to the United States senate a second time, taking his seat on 4 December of that year and serving till 3 March, 1821. The degree of LL. D. was conferred on him by Dartmouth in 1789.