page_title: Paul Dillingham
section_title: Congressman
hierarchical_section_title: Paul Dillingham / Congressman
caption_attribution_description: English: Paul Dillingham (Vermont Governor)
context_page_description: Paul Dillingham Jr. was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a U.S. Representative from Vermont, the 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Vermont from 1862 to 1865, and the 29th Governor of Vermont in 1865 and 1866.
context_section_description: Dillingham was elected as a  to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1843 – March 3, 1847).  He was not a candidate for renomination in 1846.  During Dillingham's House service, he served on the Judiciary Committee and the Committee on Claims.  The only Democrat in Vermont's Congressional delegation, he favored the annexation of Texas and supported US involvement in the Mexican-American War.
  Dillingham was a delegate to the 1857 State constitutional convention.  In 1861, Dillingham served again in the Vermont Senate.
caption: Dillingham in an 1866 Harper's Weekly illustration when he was governor.
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