From 1853 to 1854 Englesby served as Secretary of Civil and Military Affairs (chief assistant) to GovernorJohn S. Robinson.[3] A Republican, Englesby served in several local offices, including city alderman, assessor, auditor and attorney. In 1866 he was elected a trustee of the University of Vermont, a post he continued to hold until his death. Englesby was President of the 1866 Vermont Republican Convention.[4]
Englesby was an active Mason, and was Grand Master of Vermont from 1862 to 1868.[5]
In 1863, Englesby was elected to the Vermont Senate. He served until 1865, and was Senate President from 1864 to 1865.[6] From 1867 to 1869 he served as Chittenden CountyState's Attorney.[7]
Englesby died in Burlington on January 27, 1881.[8]
Referencesedit
^Hiram Carleton, editor, Genealogical and Family History of the State of Vermont, Volume 1, 1903, pages 264 to 265
^Harvard Law School, Quinquennial Catalogue of the Law School of Harvard University, 1905, page 54
^Vermont General Assembly, Journal of the Senate of the State of Vermont, 1853, page 43
^New York Times, Republican State Convention -- Nominations and Resolutions, June 21, 1866
^Grand Lodge of Vermont, Memorial Service in Memory of Leverett B. Englesby, Past Grand Master, 1881, page 1
^Vermont Secretary of State, List of Vermont Senate Presidents Pro Tempore, 2011
^University of Vermont Alumni Association, University of Vermont Obituary Record, Volume 1, 1895, pages 89 to 90
^Charles Thompson McClenachan (1894). History of the Most Ancient and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons in New York, from the Earliest Date: Embracing the History of the Grand Lodge of the State, from Its Formation in 1781, and a Sketch of Each Lodge Under Its Jurisdiction; Preceded by a Brief Account of Early Masonry in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Several Continental Nations, Together with an Outline of the Origin of the Institution in the Thirteen Colonies of the Union, Volume 4. p. 358.
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