Bird Beers Chapman

Bird Beers Chapman, a Delegate from the Territory of Nebraska; born in Salisbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut, August 24, 1821; attended the public schools; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio; moved to the Territory of Nebraska and settled in Omaha, Nebraska; was editor of the Omaha Nebraskan 1855-1859; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857); unsuccessfully contested the election of Fenner Ferguson to the Thirty-fifth Congress; died at Put in Bay, Ottawa County, Ohio, September 21, 1871; interment in Ridgelawn Cemetery, Elyria, Ohio.

Sources

• Bird Beers Chapman at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Napoleon B. Giddings	Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Nebraska March 4, 1855 - March 3, 1857	Succeeded by Fenner Ferguson