William Slade (9 May 1786-16 January 1859) was a member of the US House of Representatives (AM-VT 2) from 1 November 1831 to 3 March 1843 (succeeding Rollin Carolas Mallary and preceding Jacob Collamer) and the Whig Governor of Vermont from 11 October 1844 to 9 October 1846 (succeeding John Mattocks and preceding Horace Eaton).
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William Slade was born in Cornwall, Vermont in 1786, and he became a lawyer in Middlebury in 1810. He served as a Democratic-Republican presidential elector in 1812 and 1820, as Vermont Secretary of State from 1815 to 1822, Judge of the Addison County Court from 1816 to 1822, Clerk in the US State Department in Washington DC from 1823 to 1829, in the US House of Representatives from 1831 to 1843, and Governor of Vermont from 1844 to 1846. He supported education for women after leaving office, and he died in 1859.