Chauncey Fitch Cleveland (16 February 1799-6 June 1887) was the Democratic Governor of Connecticut from 4 May 1842 to 1 May 1844 (succeeding William W. Ellsworth and preceding Roger Sherman Baldwin) and a member of the US House of Representatives (D-CN 3) from 4 March 1849 to 3 March 1853 (succeeding John A. Rockwell and preceding Nathan Belcher).
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Chauncey Fitch Cleveland was born in Canterbury, Connecticut in 1799, and he became a lawyer in Hampton in 1819. He served in the State House throughout the 1820s, 1830s, and 1840s, and he moved to Norwich in 1841. Cleveland served as Governor from 1842 to 1844 and in the US House of Representatives from 1849 to 1853, and he became a Republican in 1854 and served as a presidential elector in 1860. He died in 1887.