Chauncey Fitch Cleveland (February 16, 1799 – June 6, 1887) was an American politician, a United States representative and the 31st governor of Connecticut.
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Biography
Born in Canterbury, Connecticut, Cleveland attended the common schools and taught school from the age of fifteen to twenty. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1819 and commenced practice in Hampton. He was married, December 13, 1821, to Diantha Hovey (1800–1867); was married, January 22, 1869, to Helen Cornelia Litchfield.
Career
Cleveland was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1826 to 1829, 1832, 1835, 1836, 1838, 1847, and 1848, and served as its speaker in 1836 and 1838. He was state's attorney in 1832 and state bank commissioner in 1838. In 1841 he moved to Norwich, Connecticut.
Elected governor of the state by the Democratic party in 1842, and again in 1843, Cleveland was governor of Connecticut from May 4, 1842, to May 1, 1844. He then resumed the practice of law in Hampton.
Elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses, Cleveland held office from March 4, 1849, to March 3, 1853.