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James Kendrick Batchelder (1842–1925) was a Vermont lawyer and politician.

Batchelder was born on November 10, 1842, in Peru, Vermont, the son of Ira K. and Nancy (Barnard) Batchelder.

Batchelder attended Burr and Burton Seminary and attended Middlebury College, where he became a member of Chi Psi, graduating in 1864 with an A.B. He attended Albany Law School and was admitted to the bar at Bennington in 1866.

He married Alta Parsons on October 27, 1868, in Arlington, Vermont.

Batchelder served as state's attorney for Bennington County from 1874-1884. He was a Republican presidential elector in 1880 and served as vice president of the Vermont Bar Association in 1888. He practiced in Arlington until 1884 and from 1884 in Bennington. He was a member of the firm Batchelder & Bates with his partner Edward Louis Bates.

Batchelder served five terms in the Vermont House of Representatives, including a term as Speaker from 1884-1886.

From 1908 to 1909, he was President of the Vermont Bar Association, succeeding Alexander Dunnett. Batchelder lost bids for governor of Vermont in 1886 and 1910.

He died on November 29, 1925, in Manchester, Vermont.

References

1. List of Speakers of the Vermont House of Representatives
2. "Demise of Alexander Dunnett". The Evening Argus. Montpelier, VT. September 15, 1920. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.

External links

• The sixth decennial catalogue, Chi Psi, p. 121.
• James Clark Fifield, The American bar, p. 669.
• Officers and members: report of proceedings of the Vermont Bar Association annual meeting, Volume 1

• Middlebury College alumni
• Albany Law School alumni
• Vermont lawyers
• Republican Party members of the Vermont House of Representatives
• Speakers of the Vermont House of Representatives
• People from Manchester, Vermont
• 1880 United States presidential electors
• 1842 births
• 1925 deaths
• 19th-century American lawyers
• 19th-century members of the Vermont General Assembly