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Epaphroditus Champion (April 6, 1756 – December 22, 1834) was a nineteenth-century war veteran, politician and land owner from Connecticut. He served as a U.S. Representative from Connecticut. ==Early life and career== Champion was born in Colchester, Connecticut, son of Colonel Henry Champion and Deborah (Brainard) Champion.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Epaphroditus Champion (1756 - 1834) )〕 He was educated both by private tutors and in the common schools. During the American Revolutionary War, Connecticut Governor Jonathan Trumbull directed Champion's father, Connecticut state commissary Colonel Henry Champion, to collect cattle and drive them to Valley Forge. Champion helped his father gather a herd of 300 cattle at Hartford, Connecticut and drive them west to King's Ferry, across the Hudson, into New Jersey, across the Delaware to Washington's famished troops west of the Schuylkill. They were devoured in five days prompting Champion to remark that the cattle were so thoroughly eaten that "you might have made a knife out of every bone." Champion was named assistant commissary to Trumball in 1776, and was the first Commissary General of the Continental Army.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Epaphroditus Champion (1756-1834) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 The Champion Story: General George Washington and The Champion Family of Colchester )〕 Champion moved to East Haddam, Connecticut in 1782. He served as captain in the Twenty-fourth Regiment of the Connecticut State militia from 1784 to 1792, as major from 1793 to 1794, as lieutenant colonel from 1795 to 1798, and as brigadier general of the Seventh Brigade from 1800 to 1803.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CHAMPION, Epaphroditus, (1756 - 1834) )〕 He worked as a merchant, shipowner, exporter and importer. He was successful in conducting trade in the West Indies.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Deming, Perkins, and Quincy families papers, 1762-1950 )〕 Champion was a member of the Connecticut state assembly from 1791 to 1806.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Epaphroditus Champion (1756-1834) )〕 He was elected as a Federalist candidate to the Tenth United States Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from March 4, 1807 to March 3, 1817.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Rep. Epaphroditus Champion )〕 After serving in Congress, he resumed his former business activities. Champion served as commissary general of provisions for army pensioners in 1832. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Epaphroditus Champion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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