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Luke Potter Poland (November

1, 1815 – July 2, 1887) was a United States Poland was born in Westford son of Luther and Nancy Potter Poland. He

attended the common schools and Jericho Academy. He worked as a clerk in

Waterville, worked in his father's sawmill, taught at Morrisville schools,

studied law in the office of Samuel A. Willard and was admitted to the bar in December 1836. He practiced in Morrisville. In 1838 he

married Martha Smith Page and they had three children. Martha died in 1853 and

he married her sister, Adelia H. With his first wife, Poland's children

included: Susan E. (1840-1841); Martin Luther (1841-1878), a West Point graduate and captain in

the United States Army who

died while on duty at Fort Yuma on the California-Arizona border; Mary Frances

(1843-1865); and Isabel Emma (1848-1927), the wife of first Andrew E. Rankin,

and then Henry O. Cushman. Poland

was register of probate from 1839 to 1840 and was a

member of the 1843. In 1844 and 1845 he was prosecuting attorney of Lamoille County, and in 1848 he succeeded Charles Davis as

an Associate Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court, a position in which he served until

1849. He served as an associate justice again from 1857 to 1860,

succeeding Pierpoint Isham. In 1860,

he succeeded Isaac F. Redfield as

chief justice; he served until 1866, and was succeeded by John Pierpoint. After resigning from the court,

Poland was appointed as a Republican to

the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jacob Collamer, and was elected to finish the term on October

24, 1866. He served from November 21, 1865 to March 3,

1867. He was then elected to the House of Representatives for the Fortieth and

to the three succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1867 to March 3,

1875). While in Congress, he was chairman of the

Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business (Fortieth Congress) and a member

of the Committee on Revision of the Laws (Fortieth, Forty-first and Forty-third

Congresses). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the

Forty-fourth Congress. A

member of the Vermont House of

Representatives in 1878, Poland was also a trustee of the University of Vermont at Burlington and of the

State Agricultural College. He was president of the First National Bank of St.

Johnsbury for twenty years. He was again elected to the House of

Representatives, and served during the Forty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1883 –

March 3, 1885);[9] he was not a candidate for renomination.