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{{short description|American lawyer and politician}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Jacob Collamer |image = JCollamer2.jpg |jr/sr = United States Senator |state = [[Vermont]] |term_start = March 4, 1855 |term_end = November 9, 1865 |predecessor = [[Lawrence Brainerd]] |successor = [[Luke P. Poland]] |office1 = Judge of the Vermont Circuit Court |term_start1 = 1850 |term_end1 = 1854 |predecessor1 = Seat established |successor1 = [[Abel Underwood]] |office2 = 13th [[United States Postmaster General]] |president2 = [[Zachary Taylor]]<br>[[Millard Fillmore]] |term_start2 = March 8, 1849 |term_end2 = July 22, 1850 |predecessor2 = [[Cave Johnson]] |successor2 = [[Nathan K. Hall]] |state3 = [[Vermont]] |district3 = {{ushr|VT|2|2nd}} |term_start3 = March 4, 1843 |term_end3 = March 3, 1849 |predecessor3 = [[William Slade (politician)|William Slade]] |successor3 = [[William Hebard]] |office4 = [[List of justices of the Vermont Supreme Court|Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court]] |term_start4 = 1833 |term_end4 = 1842 |predecessor4 = [[Nicholas Baylies]] |successor4 = [[William Hebard]] |office5 = [[State's Attorney]] of [[Windsor County, Vermont|Windsor County]] |term_start5 = 1820 |term_end5 = 1824 |predecessor5 = [[Asa Aikens]] |successor5 = Isaac Cushman |birth_date = {{birth date|1791|1|8}} |birth_place = [[Troy, New York]], U.S. |death_date = {{death date and age|1865|11|9|1791|1|8}} |death_place = [[Woodstock, Vermont]], U.S. |party = [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]] {{small|(Before 1854)}}<br>[[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] {{small|(1854–1865)}} |spouse = Mary Stone |children = 7 |education = [[University of Vermont]] {{small|([[Master of Arts|AM]])}} |allegiance = United States |branch = [[Vermont Army National Guard|Vermont Militia]] |serviceyears = 1812–1815 |rank = [[First lieutenant#U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force|First Lieutenant]] |unit = 4th Regiment, Vermont Detached Militia Brigade<br/>2nd Brigade, 4th Division |battles = [[War of 1812]] }} '''Jacob Collamer''' (January 8, 1791 – November 9, 1865) was an [[Americans|American]] politician from [[Vermont]]. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives, as [[US Postmaster General|Postmaster General]] in the cabinet of [[President of the United States|President]] [[Zachary Taylor]], and as a U.S. Senator. Born in [[Troy, New York]], and raised in [[Burlington, Vermont]], Collamer graduated from the [[University of Vermont]], studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1813. After service in the militia during the [[War of 1812]], he became active as an attorney, first in [[Royalton, Vermont|Royalton]], and then in [[Woodstock, Vermont|Woodstock]]. Highly regarded in the legal profession, he became a respected prosecutor, legislator, and judge. Elected to the House of Representatives in 1842, Collamer became a prominent [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]] leader and advocate of the anti-slavery cause. President Taylor selected Collamer to serve as Postmaster General following [[1848 United States presidential election|the 1848 presidential election]]. Collamer served until shortly after Taylor's death when he resigned to allow Taylor's successor, [[Millard Fillmore]], to name his own appointee. Collamer was elected to the Senate as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] in 1855, shortly after the formation of the new party. He became a respected voice against slavery and a prominent supporter of the [[Lincoln administration]] during the [[American Civil War]]. An advocate of more stringent postwar [[Reconstruction era of the United States|Reconstruction]] measures than those that were favored by Lincoln and his successor, [[Andrew Johnson]], Collamer advocated congressional control of the Reconstruction process. He died in Woodstock and was buried at River Street Cemetery in Woodstock. ==Early life== Jacob Collamer was born in [[Troy, New York|Troy]], [[New York (state)|New York]] on January 8, 1791, the son of Samuel Collamer and Elizabeth (Van Arnum) Collamer, and his family moved to [[Burlington, Vermont]] in 1795.<ref>{{cite book |last=Barrett |first=James |date=1868 |title=Memorial Address on the Life and Character of the Hon. Jacob Collamer |url=https://archive.org/details/memorialaddress01barrgoog |location=Rutland, VT |publisher=Tuttle & Co. |pages=[https://archive.org/details/memorialaddress01barrgoog/page/n12 4]–14 |ref={{sfnRef|''Memorial Address on the Life and Character of the Hon. Jacob Collamer''}}}}</ref> He received a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree from the [[University of Vermont]] in 1810,<ref>{{cite news |date=October 1, 1810 |title=Commencement at Burlington |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/355601885/ |work=The Washingtonian |location=Windsor, VT |page=3 |url-access=subscription |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> and after additional study, UVM later upgraded Collamer's degree to [[Master of Arts]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Bishop |first=Morris |date=1962 |title=A History of Cornell |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s_t1BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT154 |location=Ithaca, NY |publisher=Cornell University Press |page=154|isbn=9780801455377 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Thayer |first=William Roscoe |date=1915 |title=The Life And Letters Of John Hay |volume=I |url=https://archive.org/stream/lifeandlettersof028712mbp#page/n51 |location=Boston, MA |publisher=Houghton Mifflin |page=28}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Thompson |first=Zadock |date=1842 |title=History Of Vermont, Natural, Civil And Statistical |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_M6xFv628ziMC |location=Burlington, VT |publisher=Chauncey Goodrich |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_M6xFv628ziMC/page/n378 149]}}</ref> He [[reading law|studied law]] in [[St. Albans (town), Vermont|St. Albans, Vermont]] with [[Asa Aldis]], Asahel Langworthy, and [[Benjamin Swift]].{{sfn|''Memorial Address on the Life and Character of the Hon. Jacob Collamer''|page=4}} He then relocated to [[Randolph, Vermont]], where he completed his legal studies with attorney William Nutting,<ref>{{cite book |last=Nickerson & Cox |date=1895 |title=The Illustrated Historical Souvenir of Randolph, Vermont |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fHsjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA19 |location=Randolph, VT |publisher=Nickerson & Cox |page=19}}</ref> and he was [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar]] in 1813.{{sfn|''Memorial Address on the Life and Character of the Hon. Jacob Collamer''|page=4}} During the [[War of 1812]], Collamer was appointed a deputy U.S. tax collector for the district that included [[Orange County, Vermont]], and was responsible for collecting levies in support of the war effort.<ref>{{cite news |date=November 20, 1815 |title=Payment Notice by Collector Thomas Leverett |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/490764638/ |work=The Washingtonian |location=Windsor, VT |page=3 |url-access=subscription |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref> ==Military service== He served as an officer in a [[Vermont Army National Guard|Vermont Militia]] unit during the War of 1812.<ref>James V. Marshall, [https://archive.org/details/unitedstatesmanu00mars/page/613 The United States Manual of Biography and History], 1856, page 613</ref> Appointed as an [[Second lieutenant#United States|ensign]] in the 4th Regiment commanded by William Williams,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ancestry.com |title=U.S. War of 1812 Service Records, 1812-1815, Entry for Jacob Collamer |website=Ancestry.com |publisher=Ancestry.com LLC |location=Lehi, UT |access-date=June 16, 2019 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> he served first with an artillery unit on Vermont's border with [[Canada]].{{sfn|''Memorial Address on the Life and Character of the Hon. Jacob Collamer''|page=4}} After promotion to [[First lieutenant#U.S. Army, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force|first lieutenant]], Collamer served as [[Aide-de-camp#United States|aide-de-camp]] to [[Brigadier general (United States)|Brigadier General]] John French, commander of the militia's 2nd Brigade, 4th Division.<ref>{{cite book |last=Child |first=Hamilton |date=1888 |title=Gazetteer of Orange County, Vt., 1762-1888 |url=https://archive.org/stream/gazetteeroforang00chil#page/n143/mode/2up/ |location=Syracuse, NY |publisher=Syracuse Journal Company |pages=128–129}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Vermont General Assembly |date=1816 |title=Journals of the General Assembly of the State of Vermont |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6QROAAAAYAAJ&q=%22john+french+%22vermont+militia%22+%222d+brigade%22 |location=Montpelier, VT |publisher=Vermont Secretary of State |page=147}}</ref> French's unit left Orange County for upstate New York in September 1814 in response to warnings of an imminent [[British Army during the Napoleonic Wars#War in North America|British invasion]] from [[Canada]].{{sfn|''Memorial Address on the Life and Character of the Hon. Jacob Collamer''|page=4}} When the brigade was crossing [[Lake Champlain]] en route to [[Plattsburgh (city), New York|Plattsburgh]], Collamer was sent ahead in a boat to inform Vermont Militia commander Samuel Strong that French's troops were on their way.{{sfn|''Memorial Address on the Life and Character of the Hon. Jacob Collamer''|page=4}} Collamer was fired on by American sentinels, but was uninjured.{{sfn|''Memorial Address on the Life and Character of the Hon. Jacob Collamer''|page=4}} Strong informed Collamer that the [[Battle of Plattsburgh]] had taken place the day before, and the British had retreated, so French's troops returned home.{{sfn|''Memorial Address on the Life and Character of the Hon. Jacob Collamer''|page=4}} ==Early career== In 1816, he moved to [[Royalton, Vermont]], where he continued to practice law.{{sfn|''Memorial Address on the Life and Character of the Hon. Jacob Collamer''|page=4}} He remained a resident of Royalton for 20 years, practicing law in partnership with [[James Barrett (Vermont judge)|James Barrett]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Taft |first=Russell Smith |date=July 1, 1901 |title=Hon. James Barrett |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hcAg0OBzr1oC&pg=PA295 |magazine=New England Historical and Genealogical Register |location=Boston, MA |publisher=New England Historical and Genealogical Society |page=295}}</ref> Among the prospective attorneys who [[reading law|studied law]] under his supervision was [[Lyman Gibbons]], who later served as a justice of the [[Alabama Supreme Court]].<ref>Amherst College, ''Obituary Record: Roll of Graduates deceased during the Year 1879-1880; Deaths Not Previously Reported'' (1880), p. 187.</ref> Collamer also served in local offices, including Register of [[probate court|Probate]], [[Windsor County, Vermont|Windsor County]] [[State's attorney|State's Attorney]], and member of the [[Vermont House of Representatives]].{{sfn|''Memorial Address on the Life and Character of the Hon. Jacob Collamer''|pages=4-5}} While serving in the House, Collamer was the main proponent of the legislation that created the [[Vermont Senate]] in 1836.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/jacobcollamer00kell|title=Jacob Collamer: Woodstock's U.S. Senator|first=Mary Louise|last=Kelly|date=1944|location=Woodstock, VT |publisher=Woodstock Historical Society|via=Internet Archive |page=[https://archive.org/details/jacobcollamer00kell/page/4 4] |ref={{sfnRef|''Jacob Collamer: Woodstock's U.S. Senator''}}}}</ref> From 1833 to 1842 Collamer was an associate justice of the [[Vermont Supreme Court|Supreme Court of Vermont]], succeeding [[Nicholas Baylies]].{{sfn|''Memorial Address on the Life and Character of the Hon. Jacob Collamer''|page=5}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Thompson |first=Zadock |date=1842 |title=History of Vermont, Natural, Civil and Statistical |url=https://archive.org/details/HOV_vtrbms |location=Burlington, VT |publisher=Chauncey Goodrich |page=[https://archive.org/details/HOV_vtrbms/page/n128 124] |ref={{sfnRef|''History of Vermont, Natural, Civil and Statistical''}}}}</ref> In 1836 he moved to [[Woodstock, Vermont|Woodstock]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Tinkham |first=O. M. |date=July 1, 1900 |title=Jacob Collamer |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uo8eAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA1-PA234 |magazine=The Vermonter |location=St. Albans, VT |publisher=Charles Spooner Forbes |page=234 |ref={{sfnRef|''The Vermonter'': Jacob Collamer}}}}</ref> From 1839 to 1845 Collamer was a Trustee of the [[University of Vermont]].<ref>University of Vermont, [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_8yHOAAAAMAAJ/page/n10 <!-- pg=9 --> Catalogue of the University of Vermont], 1890, page 9</ref> ==House of Representatives== Elected to the [[US House of Representatives]] in 1842 as a [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]], Collamer served three terms, from 1843 to 1849.{{sfn|''Memorial Address on the Life and Character of the Hon. Jacob Collamer''|page=12}} He opposed the extension of slavery, the [[Texas Annexation]], and the [[Mexican–American War]]; supported high tariffs to help American manufacturers and received national recognition for his "Wool and Woolens" speech on tariffs.<ref name="auto">John J. Duffy, Samuel B. Hand, Ralph H. Orth, editors, [https://books.google.com/books?id=uTBCXqOou0YC&pg=PA91 The Vermont Encyclopedia], 2003, page 91</ref>{{sfn|''Memorial Address on the Life and Character of the Hon. Jacob Collamer''|page=13}} Collamer was Chairman of the [[United States House Committee on Manufactures|Committee on Manufactures]] ([[28th United States Congress|Twenty-eighth Congress]]) and the [[United States House Committee on Natural Resources|Committee on Public Lands]] ([[30th United States Congress|Thirtieth Congress]]).{{sfn|''Memorial Address on the Life and Character of the Hon. Jacob Collamer''|page=14}} ==Postmaster General== Collamer served as [[US Postmaster General|Postmaster General]] under President [[Zachary Taylor]]. Appointed at the start of the [[Taylor administration|Taylor's administration]] in 1849, he served until resigning in July 1850.<ref>{{cite book |last=Marshall |first=James V. |date=1856 |title=The United States Manual of Biography and History |url=https://archive.org/details/unitedstatesmanu00mars |location=Philadelphia, PA |publisher=James B. Smith & Co. |page=[https://archive.org/details/unitedstatesmanu00mars/page/613 613]}}</ref> Collamer resigned shortly after Taylor's death to enable President [[Millard Fillmore]] to name his own appointee.<ref>{{cite book |last=McCook |first=Anson G. |date=1887 |title=Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate of the United States |volume=VIII |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bseGAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA205 |location=Washington, DC |publisher=US Government Printing Office |page=205}}</ref> As Postmaster General, Collamer was criticized by Whig partisans of the [[spoils system]] because he was reluctant to remove local [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] postmasters ''[[en masse]]'' so they could be replaced by Whigs.<ref>K. Jack Bauer, [https://books.google.com/books?id=H42TwTwE1IwC&dq=jacob+collamer+postmaster+general&pg=PA262 Zachary Taylor: Soldier, Planter, Statesman of the Old Southwest], 1993, page 262</ref> Among his accomplishments was the introduction of a permanent system for using [[Postage stamps and postal history of the United States|postage stamps]]; Collamer sent the first letter using one, a note addressed to his brother in [[Barre (city), Vermont|Barre, Vermont]] in which he recommended saving the stamp because if the system worked, it might be valuable to collectors.{{sfn|''Jacob Collamer: Woodstock's U.S. Senator''|page=4}} ==Beyond politics== Upon returning to Vermont, Collamer was appointed a judge of the newly created state Circuit Court, where he served until 1854.<ref>Charles C. Little and James Brown (Boston), [https://books.google.com/books?id=HLE0AQAAMAAJ&dq=jacob+collamer+judge+circuit+court&pg=PA234 ''The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1852''], 1851, page 234</ref> He was succeeded on the bench by [[Abel Underwood]], who served until the state Circuit Court was abolished in an 1857 court reorganization.<ref>{{cite book |last=Child |first=Hamilton |date=1888 |title=Gazetteer of Orange County, Vt., 1762-1888 |volume=Part 1 |url=https://archive.org/stream/gazetteeroforang00chil#page/n7/mode/2up/ |location=Syracuse, NY |publisher=Syracuse Journal Company |page=113 |ref={{sfnRef|''Gazetteer of Orange County, Vt., 1762-1888''}}}}</ref> Collamer was a longtime trustee of and lecturer at the Vermont Medical College in Woodstock and served as President of the Board of Trustees.<ref>University of Vermont, [https://books.google.com/books?id=gIQfAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22vermont+medical+college%22+collamer&pg=PA23 University of Vermont Obituary Record], Volume 1, pages 23-24</ref> ==Senator== In 1855 Collamer was elected to the [[US Senate|Senate]] as a conservative, anti-slavery [[US Republican Party|Republican]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Garrison |first1=William Lloyd |last2=Ruchames |first2=Louis |date=1975 |title=The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison: From Disunionism to the Brink of War |volume=IV |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v5aZrAuKt0wC&pg=PA397 |location=Cambridge, MA |publisher=Cambridge, MA |page=397 |isbn=978-0-674-52663-1}}</ref> In his first term, Collamer was Chairman of the Committee on Engrossed Bills ([[34th United States Congress|Thirty-fourth Congress]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/resources/pdf/CommitteeChairs.pdf |title=Chairmen of Senate Standing Committees, 1789-present |last=Historian of the United States Senate |date=2015 |website=senate.gov/ |publisher=U.S. Senate |location=Washington, DC |pages=20, 45, 54 |ref={{sfnRef|Chairmen of Senate Standing Committees, 1789-present}}}}</ref> In 1856, Collamer received several votes for [[Vice President of the United States|Vice President]] at the [[1856 Republican National Convention|Republican National Convention]].<ref>Republican National Committee, [https://archive.org/details/proceedingsoffir00inrepu/page/64 <!-- quote="jacob collamer" votes president 1860. --> Proceedings of the First Three Republican National Conventions], 1893, pages 63-64</ref> In the Senate, he defended his positions vigorously even when he was in the minority.{{sfn|''Jacob Collamer: Woodstock's U.S. Senator''|page=17}} When the [[United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources|Committee on Territories]], chaired by [[Stephen A. Douglas]], recommended passage of the [[Crittenden Amendment]], which proposed resubmitting for popular vote the pro-slavery [[Lecompton Constitution]] for [[Kansas]], Collamer and [[James R. Doolittle]] of [[Wisconsin]] refused to vote in favor but instead crafted a persuasive minority report explaining their opposition.{{sfn|''Jacob Collamer: Woodstock's U.S. Senator''|page=20}} Collamer also represented the minority view in June 1860, when the select committee chaired by [[James Murray Mason]] issued its report on [[John Brown (abolitionist)|John Brown]]'s raid on [[Harper's Ferry]].<ref>West Virginia Culture and History, [http://www.wvculture.org/history/jbexhibit/masonreport.html Senate Select Committee Report on the Harper’s Ferry Invasion], retrieved December 17, 2013</ref> Mason argued that Brown's raid was the work of an organized abolitionist movement, which needed to be curtailed with federal authority.<ref name="wvculture.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.wvculture.org/history/jbexhibit/masonreport.html|title=Mason Report|website=www.wvculture.org}}</ref> Collamer and Doolittle countered that Brown and his followers had been caught and punished and that further government action was not necessary.<ref name="wvculture.org"/> Collamer's years on the bench helped develop his reputation as the best lawyer in the Senate.<ref>{{cite book |last=Bogue |first=Allan G. |date=2009 |title=The Earnest Men: Republicans of the Civil War Senate |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-eZnI4lkfQUC&pg=PA32 |location=Ithaca, NY |publisher=Cornell University Press |page=32 |isbn= 978-0801475696|ref={{sfnRef|''The Earnest Men: Republicans of the Civil War Senate''}}}}</ref> His colleagues were known to pay close attention to his remarks on the Senate floor even though he spoke infrequently and even then too quietly to reach the entire chamber or the galleries.{{sfn|''The Earnest Men: Republicans of the Civil War Senate''|page=32}} [[Charles Sumner]] referred to Collamer as the "Green-Mountain [[Socrates]]"{{sfn|''The Earnest Men: Republicans of the Civil War Senate''|page=32}} and called him the wisest and best balanced statesman of his time.<ref>{{cite book |last=Barber |first=A. D. |date=November 5, 1896 |title=Vermont as a Leader in Educational Progress |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=76AyAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA5-PA107 |location=Montpelier, VT |publisher=Vermont Historical Society |page=107 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref> ===Civil War=== At the [[1860 Republican National Convention]], Collamer received the [[favorite son]] votes of Vermont's delegates and withdrew after the first ballot.<ref>The Vermonter magazine, [https://books.google.com/books?id=wZk6AQAAMAAJ&dq=%22jacob+collamer%22+1860+convention+votes+president&pg=PA5 Incidents in the Life of Lincoln], January 1909, page 5</ref> Reelected to the Senate in 1861, he served until his death.<ref>William Lloyd Garrison, [https://books.google.com/books?id=v5aZrAuKt0wC&dq=%22jacob+collamer%22+reelected+senate+1861&pg=PA397 The Letters of William Lloyd Garrison], 1976, page 397</ref> In 1861, Collamer authored the bill to invest the President with new war powers and give Congressional approval to the war measures that [[Abraham Lincoln]] had taken under his own authority at the start of his administration.<ref>Jacob G. Ullery, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Nvg_AAAAYAAJ&q=collamer&pg=PA224 Men of Vermont Illustrated], 1894, pages 121-124</ref> Collamer was the lead senator of the nine Republicans who visited Lincoln in 1862 to argue for change in the composition of his cabinet by persuading him to replace his [[US Secretary of State|Secretary of State]], [[William Henry Seward]].<ref>Chester G. Hearn, [https://books.google.com/books?id=cmZkBkmBc7wC&dq=%22jacob+collamer%22+seward+chase+lincoln+meeting+cabinet&pg=PA141 Lincoln, the Cabinet, and the Generals], 2010, pages 139-143</ref> Having been encouraged to confront Lincoln by claims of cabinet disharmony from Lincoln's [[US Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]], [[Salmon P. Chase]], the senators changed their minds during the meeting after Chase was maneuvered by Lincoln into backtracking on his initial argument.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cmZkBkmBc7wC&q=%22jacob+collamer%22+seward+chase+lincoln+meeting+cabinet&pg=PA141|title=Lincoln, the Cabinet, and the Generals|first=Chester G.|last=Hearn|date=28 March 2018|publisher=LSU Press|isbn=9780807137338|via=Google Books}}</ref> Again a member of the majority once the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] from the southern states left the Senate during the war, Collamer was Chairman of the Committee on the Post Office and Post Roads ([[37th United States Congress|Thirty-seventh]] to [[39th United States Congress|Thirty-ninth Congresses]]) and the Committee on the Library ([[38th United States Congress|Thirty-eighth]] and Thirty-ninth Congresses).{{sfn|Chairmen of Senate Standing Committees, 1789-present}} After the war, Collamer opposed the [[Reconstruction era of the United States|Reconstruction]] of plans of Presidents Lincoln and [[Andrew Johnson]] and was an advocate of Congressional control over the process of readmitting former [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] states to the Union.<ref name="auto"/> ==Death== Collamer died at his home in Woodstock on November 9, 1865{{sfn|''Memorial Address on the Life and Character of the Hon. Jacob Collamer''|page=12}} and was buried in Woodstock's River Street Cemetery.<ref>U.S. Government Printing Office, [https://books.google.com/books?id=N3UbSvFEYEkC&q=%22jacob+collamer%22+died Addresses on the Death of Senator Jacob Collamer], 1866, pages 61-62</ref><ref>Robert I. Vexler, [https://archive.org/details/vicepresidentsca0001vexl <!-- quote="river street". --> The Vice-Presidents and Cabinet Members: Biographies Arranged Chronologically by Administration], Volume 1, 1975, page 185</ref> ==Awards and honors== Collamer received the [[honorary degree]] of [[Legum Doctor|LL.D.]] from the University of Vermont in 1850 and [[Dartmouth College]] in 1855.<ref>University of Vermont, [https://books.google.com/books?id=gIQfAAAAYAAJ&dq=jacob+collamer+university+of+vermont+trustee&pg=PA23 University of Vermont Obituary Record], Volume 1, 1895, pages 23-24</ref> In 1881, the state of [[Vermont]] donated a [[Jacob Collamer (Powers)|marble statue of Collamer]] created by [[Preston Powers]] to the [[U.S. Capitol]]'s [[National Statuary Hall Collection]].{{sfn|''The Vermonter'': Jacob Collamer|page=238}} Each state is represented by two statues, and Vermont's are likenesses of Collamer and [[Ethan Allen]].<ref>United States Congress, Joint Committee on the Library, [https://books.google.com/books?id=piIUAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22jacob+collamer%22+statuary+hall&pg=PA25 Legislation Creating the National Statuary Hall in the Capitol], 1916, page 25</ref><ref>Glenn Brown, [https://books.google.com/books?id=eG8Yng2jxIgC&dq=%22jacob+collamer%22+%22ethan+allen%22+statuary+hall&pg=PA530 Glenn Brown's History of the United States Capitol], 1900, page 530</ref> ==Family== In 1817, Collamer married Mary Stone, who died in 1870.<ref>{{cite book |last=Reno |first=Conrad |date=1900 |title=Memoirs of the Judiciary and the Bar of New England |volume=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kGswAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA4-PA26 |location=Boston, MA |publisher=Century Memorial Publishing Co. |page=26 |ref={{sfnRef|''Memoirs of the Judiciary and the Bar of New England''}}}}</ref> Their children included Elisabeth, Harriet, Mary, Edward, Ellen, Frances, and William.{{sfn|''Memoirs of the Judiciary and the Bar of New England''|page=26}} ==Home== Collamer's home at 40 Elm Street in Woodstock is part of the [[Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park]]'s Civil War Home Front Walking Tour.<ref>National Park Service, [http://www.nps.gov/mabi/planyourvisit/civil-war-home-front-walking-tour.htm Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park, Civil War Home Front Walking Tour], retrieved December 17, 2013</ref><ref>Patricia Harris and David Lyon, Boston Globe, [https://www.boston.com/travel/explorene/vermont/articles/2010/07/11/civil_war_history_still_breathes_down_the_years/ Civil War History Still Breathes Down the Years], July 11, 2010</ref> ==See also== *[[List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899)]] <gallery widths=180> Image:The Taylor Administration.jpg|''The Zachary Taylor Administration'', 1849 Daguerreotype by [[Mathew Brady]]<br>From left to right: [[William Ballard Preston]], [[Thomas Ewing]], [[John M. Clayton]], [[Zachary Taylor]], [[William M. Meredith]], [[George W. Crawford]], Jacob Collamer and [[Reverdy Johnson]] in 1849 File:Collamer.jpg|Jacob Collamer in U.S Statuary Hall Image:Jacob Collamer - Postmaster General of USA.jpg|Jacob Collamer during the Civil War </gallery> ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== {{CongBio|C000628}} *{{Find a Grave|23044}} {{s-start}} {{s-off}} {{U.S. Cabinet official box | before= [[Cave Johnson]] | after= [[Nathan K. 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