Horace Everett was a United States Representative from Vermont

Vermont

Vermont is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state ranks 43rd in land area, , and 45th in total area. Its population according to the 2010 census, 630,337, is the second smallest in the country, larger only than Wyoming. It is the only New England...

. He was born in Foxboro, Massachusetts. His father was John Everett; his mother was Melatiah (Metcalf) Ware. He was a descendant of Richard Everett

Richard Everett

Richard Everett was a founder of both Springfield, Massachusetts and Dedham, Massachusetts and an ancestor of many notable Americans....

 and first cousin of Edward Everett

Edward Everett

Edward Everett was an American politician and educator from Massachusetts. Everett, a Whig, served as U.S. Representative, and U.S. Senator, the 15th Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to Great Britain, and United States Secretary of State...

. He graduated from Brown University

Brown University

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, Providence, Rhode Island

Providence, Rhode Island

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 in 1797. He studied law

Law

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 and was admitted to the bar in 1801 and commenced practice in Windsor, Vermont

Windsor, Vermont

Windsor is a town in Windsor County, Vermont, United States. The population was 3,756 at the 2000 census.-History:One of the New Hampshire grants, Windsor was chartered as a town on July 6, 1761 by Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth. It was first settled in August 1764 by Captain Steele Smith and...

. He married Mary Leverett on October 31, 1811. He was the prosecuting attorney for Windsor County 1813–1818.

Everett was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives

Vermont House of Representatives

The Vermont House of Representatives is the lower house of the Vermont General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Vermont. The House comprises 150 members. Vermont legislative districting divides representing districts into 66 single-member districts and 42 two-member...

 in 1819, 1820, 1822, 1824, and again in 1834. He was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1828. He was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-first through the Twenty-fourth Congresses, and reelected as a Whig

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to the Twenty-fifth, Twenty-sixth, and Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1843). He died in Windsor, Vermont in 1851 and was buried in Old South Burying Ground.