Albert L. Catlin

Albert L. Catlin
1st Mayor of Burlington
In office
1865–1866
Preceded byOffice established
Succeeded byTorrey E. Wales
Personal details
Born
Albert Leonard Catlin

c. 1809
Addison County, Vermont, U.S.
DiedAugust 10, 1884(1884-08-10) (aged 75)
Burlington, Vermont, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
Other political
affiliations		Whig
National Union
SpouseOlivia Mason

Albert L. Catlin (c.1809 – August 10, 1884) was an American politician who served as the 1st Mayor of Burlington, Vermont. Catlin was born in Addison County, Vermont around 1809 and died in Burlington in 1884 with no family due to having no children with his wife whom he outlived.[1]

Career

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Catlin served as the collector for the port of Burlington from 1849 to 1853.[2] Later in the 1850s he became a director and a member of the board of finance for the National Life Insurance Company of Montpelier, Vermont.[3] He was elected as director and president of the Rutland Railroad in 1863.[2]

Catlin represented Orwell, Vermont, in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1847 to 1848.[2] He was one of six Whig presidential electors for the state of Vermont, as the 3rd district elector, during the 1848 presidential campaign and cast his vote for Zachary Taylor when the electoral college met.[4][5] During the 1864 presidential campaign he supported the National Union ticket and was the one of two at-large presidential electors along with three other district electors and went on to cast his vote for Abraham Lincoln.[6]

Mayoral

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On February 20, 1865, Catlin defeated Carolus Noyes for the mayoralty of Burlington in its first election with 413 votes to Noyes' 249 and won both wards and would serve one one-year term.[7] In his mayoral address in 1866, he referred to Burlington as the "Queen City of New England", which it had been called as far back as 1848, leading to the popularization of the nickname.[8]

Luman A. Drew was appointed as the city's first constable on June 7, 1865, and the police made 248 arrests that year, with 90% being liquor-related.[9] Drew was later appointed chief of police in 1868.[10]

Later life

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In 1866, Catlin nominated state representative John L. Barstow for the Republican nomination for state senate and was approved unanimously.[11]

In 1878, he was one of the charterers of a corporation with the purpose to hold real estate for the Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Vermont.[12]

References

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  1. ^ "Two Prominent Burlington Citizens Dead". St. Albans Weekly Messenger. 15 August 1884. p. 5. Archived from the original on 7 November 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. ^ a b c Life.
  3. ^ "The National Life Insurance Company". Green-Mountain Freeman. 13 February 1851. p. 3. Archived from the original on 7 November 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ "Whig Electoral Ticket". The St. Johnsbury Caledonian. 4 November 1848. p. 3. Archived from the original on 7 November 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ^ "1848 Whig Electoral Ticket". Middlebury Register. 8 August 1848. p. 2. Archived from the original on 7 November 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  6. ^ "Whig Electoral Ticket". The Vermont Transcript. 21 October 1864. p. 2. Archived from the original on 7 November 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  7. ^ "Burlington Mayoral Race 1865". Burlington Daily Times. 21 February 1865. p. 3. Archived from the original on 7 November 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  8. ^ "Why Is Burlington Called the Queen City?". Long Live The Queen City!. 30 January 2010. Archived from the original on 21 October 2018.
  9. ^ Beerworth 2015, pp. 27–28.
  10. ^ Beerworth 2015, p. 33.
  11. ^ "State Senator Nomination". Burlington Daily Times. 2 July 1848. p. 3. Archived from the original on 7 November 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
  12. ^ "The Support of the Bishop, Diocese of Vermont". St. Albans Daily Messenger. 6 November 1878. p. 2. Archived from the original on 7 November 2019 – via Newspapers.com.

Works cited

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