Ansel Sterling (February 3, 1782 – November 6, 1853) was a
United States representative from
Connecticut. He was the brother of
Micah Sterling who was a United States Representative from
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. He was born in
Lyme, Connecticut, where he attended the common schools. Later, he studied
law and was admitted to the bar in 1805. He commenced practice in
Salisbury before moving to
Sharon
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in 1808 where he continued the practice of his profession.
Sterling was a member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives in 1815, 1818–1821, 1825, 1826, 1829, and 1835–1837, and served as clerk of the house in the sessions of 1815 and 1818-1820. He was elected as a
Democratic-Republican to the
Seventeenth Congress and reelected as an
Adams-Clay candidate to the
Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1825). After leaving Congress, he resumed legal practice and was the chief justice of the court of common pleas of
Litchfield County 1838-1840. He died in Sharon in 1853 and was buried in Sharon Burying Ground.
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1782 births
1853 deaths
Members of the Connecticut House of Representatives
Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut
19th-century American legislators