Jerome B. Chaffee

American politician (1825–1886)

Jerome B. Chaffee


United States Senator from Colorado
In office November 15, 1876 – March 3, 1879
Preceded by	None
Succeeded by	Nathaniel P. Hill
Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado Territory's At-large district
In office March 4, 1871 – March 3, 1875
Preceded by	Allen A. Bradford
Succeeded by	Thomas M. Patterson

Personal details
Born	(1825-04-17)April 17, 1825 Niagara County, New York
Died	March 9, 1886(1886-03-09) (aged 60) North Salem, New York
Resting place	Oakwood Cemetery, Adrian, Michigan
Political party	Republican

Jerome Bunty Chaffee (April 17, 1825 – March 9, 1886) was an American entrepreneur and United States Senator from Colorado. Chaffee County, Colorado^[1] is named after him.

Biography

He was born in Cambria, New York. He moved to Adrian, Michigan in 1844 and worked as a teacher until starting a dry goods business in the late 1840s. In 1852, he moved to St. Joseph, Missouri, and later to Elmwood, Kansas Territory where he started banking businesses and engaged in land speculation.

In 1860, he moved to Colorado to invest in mining. He was one of the founders of the City of Denver, Colorado, and founded the First National Bank of Denver in 1865. Chaffee entered politics and helped organize the Colorado Territory, serving in its first legislature as speaker. He was the territorial delegate to the United States Congress starting in 1870.

In 1876, after Colorado was admitted to the Union, Chaffee was elected to the United States Senate. He served for the duration of his term, until 1879, but did not seek reelection due to poor health.

In 1884, Chaffee was elected state chairman of the Colorado Republican Party.

His sole surviving child, daughter Fannie Josephine (1857–1909), married Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., a son of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant. The couple had five children, including Ulysses S. Grant IV.

Chaffee died March 9, 1886, at the Grants' home in Salem Center, New York. He is buried in Adrian Cemetery, in Adrian, Michigan.^[2]

Notes

^ Gannett, Henry (1905). The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States. Govt. Print. Off. pp. 74.
^ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

References

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: Chaffee, Jerome Bunty, accessed 9 December 2005
The National Cyclopædia of American Biography. (1929) Vol. VI New York: James T. White & Co. pp. 199–200.
Who was Who in America, Historical Volume. (1963) Chicago: Marquis Who's Who

U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Allen Alexander Bradford	Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Colorado 1871–1875	Succeeded by Thomas MacDonald Patterson
U.S. Senate
Preceded by none	U.S. senator (Class 3) from Colorado 1876–1879 Served alongside: Henry M. Teller	Succeeded by Nathaniel P. Hill

United States senators from Colorado

Class 2

Class 3

v t e Members of the United States House of Representatives from Colorado
1st district	Pence Shafroth Bonynge Rucker Kindel Hilliard Vaile White Eaton Lewis Gillespie Carroll Rogers McKevitt Schroeder DeGette
2nd district	Bell Hogg Haggott Martin Seldomridge Timberlake Cummings Hill Dominick Brotzman McVicker Brotzman Wirth Skaggs Udall Polis Neguse
3rd district	Keating Hardy Martin Burney Chenoweth Marsalis Chenoweth Evans Kogovsek Strang Campbell McInnis Salazar Tipton Boebert
4th district	Taylor Rockwell Aspinall Johnson Brown Allard Schaffer Musgrave Markey Gardner Buck
5th district	Armstrong Kramer Hefley Lamborn
6th district	Schaefer Tancredo Coffman Crow
7th district	Beauprez Perlmutter Pettersen
8th district	Caraveo
At-large	Belford Patterson Belford Symes Townsend Brooks Cook Taylor Keating
Territory	Bennet Bradford Chilcott Bradford Chaffee Patterson