Nathaniel Chipman (15 November 1752 – 13 February 1843) was a US Senator from Vermont from 17 October 1797 to 3 March 1803, succeeding Isaac Tichenor and preceding Israel Smith. He was a member of the Federalist Party.
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Nathaniel Chipman was born in Salisbury, Connecticut in 1752, and he served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He became a lawyer in Vermont in 1779, and he served as the Rutland County attorney from 1781 to 1785 and in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1784 to 1785. From 1786 to 1793, he served in the Vermont Supreme Court, and he convinced President George Washington to admit Vermont as a state. In 1797, he was appointed to fill Vermont's US Senate seat after Isaac Tichenor's resignation, and he served until 1803. In 1816, he became a professor at Middlebury College, and he died in 1843.