Andrew Thompson Judson (29 November 1784 – 17 March 1853) was a member of the US House of Representatives (D-CN) from 4 March 1835 to 4 July 1836, succeeding Ebenezer Jackson Jr. and preceding Orrin Holt.
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Andrew Thompson Judson was born in Eastford, Connecticut in 1784, and he was admitted to the bar in 1806. He became a lawyer in Montpelier, Vermont, engaging in private practice until 1819. In 1816, he was elected a Connecticut state representative, and he was affiliated with the secularist Tolerationists before serving as state's attorney for Windham County from 1819 to 1833 and in the state legislature. From 1835 to 1836, Judson served in the US House of Representatives as a Jacksonian Democrat. From 1836 to 1853, he served as a federal judge for the district of Connecticut, and he was the original judge in the case of the Amistad in 1839, later replaced by Jeremy Coglin in a bid to bias the trial in favor of the pro-government prosecution. He died in Canterbury, Connecticut in 1853.