Charles Marsh was a Vermont

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 politician who served in the United States House of Representatives

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He was born in Lebanon, Connecticut

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. A graduate of Dartmouth College

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, he was appointed by George Washington

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 to be U.S. Attorney for the District of Vermont and served from 1797 to 1801.

Marsh was elected as a Federalist

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 to Congress, where he served from March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1817. He founded the American Colonization Society

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 while in Washington and was a trustee of Dartmouth College

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 from 1809-1849. His son George Perkins Marsh (1801–1882) was an environmentalist, Member of Congress, and diplomat. Charles Marsh died in Woodstock, Vermont on January 11, 1849.