Jonathan Brace (12 November 1754 – 26 August 1837) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-CN) from 3 December 1798 to May 1800, succeeding William Edmond and preceding Elizur Goodrich.
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Jonathan Brace was born in Harwinton, Connecticut in 1754, and he became a lawyer in Bennington, Vermont in 1779. He served as Prosecutor of Bennington County from 1784 to 1785, and he moved to Glastonbury, Connecticut in 1786, being admitted to the bar there in 1790. He served in the General Assembly in 1788 and from 1791 to 1794, and he went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1798 to 1800 before serving as a judge and then as Mayor of Hartford from 1815 to 1824. He died in 1837.