Paul Brigham (January 1746-15 June 1824) was the Democratic-Republican Governor of Vermont from 25 August to 16 October 1797, succeeding Thomas Chittenden and preceding Isaac Tichenor.
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Paul Brigham was born in Coventry, Connecticut in 1746, and he served in the Connecticut militia during the American Revolutionary War. In 1782, he and his family moved to Norwich, Vermont, where he worked as a farmer and land speculator. He served as Windsor County high sheriff for five years, as a judge for five years, on the Governor's Council from 1793 to 1796, as Lieutenant Governor from 1796 to 1813 and from 1815 to 1820, and as acting Governor in 1797. He died in 1824.