Andrew Tracy

Tracy was born in Hartford, Vermont, to James Tracy and Mercy Richmond Tracy. He attended Royalton and Randolph Academies, before attending Dartmouth CollegeinHanover, New Hampshire, for two years.^[1] He taught school, studied law with George E. Wales, and was admitted to the bar in 1826.^[2] He began the practice of lawinQuechee, Vermont, and in 1838 moved to Woodstock, Vermont, where he continued to practice law.^[3]

Tracy was member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1833 until 1837.^[4] He served in the Vermont Senate in 1839^[5] and was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1840 to the Twenty-seventh Congress. He was a member of the Vermont House again from 1843 until 1845, and served as speaker.^[6] He was a Presidential Elector for Vermont in 1848.^[7]

He was elected as a Whig candidate to the Thirty-third Congress, serving from March 4, 1853, until March 3, 1855.^[8] He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress. After leaving Congress, he resumed the practice of law.^[9]

Tracy died in Woodstock, Vermont, on October 28, 1868.

• "History of Windsor county, Vermont" by Lewis Cass Aldrich, Frank R. Holmes, published by D. Mason & Co., 1891.

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