William Cahoon

Cahoon was born in Providence in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations{{cite web|url= http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vtgenweb/LyndonVT-town.htm|title =LyndonCaledonia County, VermontHistory <-> Genealogy| publisher= Ancestry.com|access-date= December 7, 2012}} to Daniel Cahoon Jr (1737-1811) and Lillis (Dyer) Cahoon (1740-1832). He attended the common schools. He moved with his parents to Lyndon, Vermont, in 1791 and engaged in milling and agricultural pursuits.

He was a member of the Vermont State House of Representatives from 1802 until 1810.{{cite web|url= http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/CA-buried.html|title=William Cahoon (1774-1833)|publisher= The Political Graveyard|access-date= December 7, 2012}} He succeeded his father as town clerk in Lyndon, and served from 1808 until 1829.{{cite web|url= http://www.vermonter.com/nek/lyndon5.asp|title =Lyndon, Vermont - Local Celebrities| publisher= Vermonter.com|access-date= December 7, 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://www.uvm.edu/crs/resources/profiles/Lyndon/human.htm|title =Lyndon Human Capital| publisher= Center for Rural Studies|access-date= December 7, 2012}}

Cahoon was a presidential elector in 1808 and voted for Madison and Langdon.{{cite web|url= http://www.ourcampaigns.com/CandidateDetail.html?CandidateID=65001|title =Cahoon, William

| publisher= Our Campaigns|access-date= December 7, 2012}} He was appointed major general in the militia in 1808 and served during the War of 1812.{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000020|title=CAHOON, William, (1774 - 1833)|publisher= Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date= December 7, 2012 }} From 1811 until 1819, Cahoon served as Caledonia County judge.{{cite book|last=Hemenway|first=Abby Maria|title=The Vermont Historical Gazetteer: A Magazine, Embracing a History of Each Town, Civil, Ecclesiastical, Biographical and Military, Volume 1|publisher=Miss A. M. Hemenway|year=1867|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_lNQbAQAAMAAJ/page/n343 355]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_lNQbAQAAMAAJ }} He was a delegate to the Vermont State constitutional conventions in 1814 and 1828, and a member of the Vermont Governor's Council from 1815 until 1820.{{cite web|url= http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/CA-buried.html|title=William Cahoon (1774-1833)|publisher= The Political Graveyard|access-date= December 7, 2012}}

From 1820 until 1821, Cahoon served as the Lieutenant Governor of Vermont.{{cite web|url= https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:1O1E4NPtMmEJ:vermont-archives.org/govhistory/Officials/pdf/ltgov.pdf+&hl=en&gl=us&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEEShqXjYXDkVbSn5VNTCbUt5t1bzABoSQvhvktjJ8lwwareRHs6z2WkMGT59hxhlK5kPfdj6g5s6LKl7l7sMnSBSDBkLPgFMj2DkbhVtSzETi0lANPIOHdkc8ZJIT0jEuaHtP0AYl&sig=AHIEtbRn9wlOiTaD3Qoqf3yeK_Dfx98akQ|title =Lieutenant Governors| publisher= Office of the Vermont Secretary of the State|access-date= December 7, 2012}}

He was elected an Anti-Masonic candidate to the Twenty-first United States Congress and the Twenty-second United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1829, until March 3, 1833.{{cite web|url= http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/william_cahoon/402181

|title=Rep. William Cahoon|publisher= Govtrack.us|access-date= December 7, 2012}}

He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1832 for reelection to Congress.

Cahoon had two sons, George C. Cahoon and Edward A. Cahoon. Edward was a Vermont State Senator.{{cite book|last=Jeffrey|first=William Hartley|title=Successful Vermonters: a modern gazetteer of Caledonia, Essex, and Orleans counties : containing an historical review of the several towns and a series of biographical sketches of the men of mark who have won distinction in their several callings, and who have become conspicuous in the professional, business, and political world|year=1904|publisher=Higginson Book Co|pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_PkYjAQAAMAAJ/page/n243 230]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_PkYjAQAAMAAJ }}

Cahoon died on May 30, 1833, in Lyndon, Vermont. He is interred at the Lyndon Town Cemetery in Lyndon Center.

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• [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000020 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]
• [http://vermont-archives.org Information from the Vermont Archives]
• {{Find a Grave|7127100}}
• [http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/william_cahoon/402181 Govtrack.us]
• [http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/VT/CA-buried.html The Political Graveyard]

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