John Kimball (September 30, 1796 – February 23, 1884) was a New Hampshire and Vermont attorney and politician who served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives and the Vermont House of Representatives. He also served as President of the Vermont Senate.
Biography John Kimball was born in Haverhill, New Hampshire on September 30, 1796. He graduated from Kimball Union Academy and Dartmouth College (class of 1822), studied law with Moses P. Payson, and became an attorney in Claremont. A Whig, Kimball served in the New Hampshire House of Representatives from 1838 to 1839.Otis Frederick Reed Waite, History of the Town of Claremont, New Hampshire, 1895, page 445Samuel Lankton Geroud, The General Catalogue and a Brief History of Kimball Union Academy, 1880, page 38Dartmouth College, General Catalogue of Dartmouth College, 1880, page 23
In 1839 Kimball relocated to Putney, Vermont, where he continued to practice law.Allyn Stanley Kellogg, Josephine Almira Gleason Siems, Memorials of Elder John White, 1917, page 184 From 1843 to 1846 he was Windham County State's Attorney.Vermont General Assembly, Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Vermont, 1846, page 250
From 1846 to 1849 Kimball served in the Vermont Senate.Hamilton Child, Gazetteer and Business Directory of Windham County, Vt., 1724-1884, 1884, page 39 From 1848 to 1849 he was the Senate's President pro tem.Vermont State Senate, list of Presidents pro tempore, 2011
Now a Republican, Kimball served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1856 to 1857, and again in 1864.Abby Maria Hemenway, The Vermont Historical Gazetteer, Volume 5, 1891, page 226George Thomas Chapman, Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College, 1867, page 212
Kimball died in Putney on February 3, 1884.Amos Foster, History of the Town of Putney, 1884, page 225 He was buried at Maple Grove Cemetery in Putney.
Personal In 1834 John Kimball married Frances Mary White, the daughter of Phineas White.Charles Henry Bell, The Bench and Bar of New Hampshire, 1894, page 474 They were the parents of three children, one of whom, Charles White Kimball (1836–1898), lived to adulthood.
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