Early Life and Start of Political Career
Julius Converse was born in Stafford, Connecticut on December 17, 1798. He was raised in Vermont, educated at Vermont's Randolph Academy, studied law, and became an attorney in Bethel in 1826. A Whig, Converse served in the Vermont House of Representatives in 1833 and the Vermont State Senate from 1836 to 1840.
After his State Senate term ended Converse moved to Woodstock, where he resumed practicing law and served as Windsor County State's Attorney from 1844 to 1847. He returned to the Vermont House in 1847, serving until 1849. From 1850 to 1851 Converse was Vermont's Lieutenant Governor. He became a Republican when the party was founded in the 1850s, and served in the Vermont House for the third time from 1867 to 1868. In 1869 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the nomination for Governor, losing to Peter T. Washburn.
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