CHICKERING, Jesse, political economist, born in Dover, New Hampshire, 31 August, 1797; died in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, 29 May, 1855. He was graduated at Harvard in 1818, studied theology, and became a Unitarian minister. He afterward pursued a medical course, receiving' his diploma in 1833, and practiced medicine for about ten years in Boston and West Roxbury. He was the author of a "Statistical View of the Population of Massachusetts from 1765 to 1840" (Boston, 1846); "Emigration into the United States" (1848);" Reports on the Census of Boston" (1851); and a "Letter addressed to the President of the United States on Slavery, considered in Relation to the Principles of Constitutional Government in Great Britain and in the United States" (1855).