Career
In 1777, Tichenor moved to Bennington, Vermont and served as an Assistant Commissary General during the American Revolution. He was a member of the State House of Representatives from 1781 to 1784 and served as Speaker of the House in 1783. He was an agent from the state to the Continental Congress and presented Vermont's claim for admission to the Union from 1782 to 1789.
In 1791 Tichenor ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the United States House of Representatives against Matthew Lyon and Israel Smith, receiving 29% of the vote in the first round. He was an associate justice of the Vermont State Supreme Court from 1791 to 1794, and Chief Justice in 1795 and 1796. In 1796 he was elected to fill the unexpired term of Moses Robinson in the United States Senate beginning on October 18, 1796. He was re-elected to a full six-year term to begin on March 4, 1797, but he resigned on October 17, 1779, when he was elected Governor of Vermont. He remained until he was defeated for reelection by Israel Smith in 1807. He defeated Smith in 1808 and remained Governor until he was succeeded by Jonas Galusha in 1809.
Tichenor was a member of the United States Federalist Party; when that party dominated the federal government in the 1790s many leading politicians in Vermont opposed the party. In 1815, Tichenor returned to the United States Senate, where he served until 1821 when the Federalist Party ceased to exist.
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