Jesse Chickering

Jesse Chickering (born Dover, New Hampshire, August 31, 1797; died West Roxbury, Massachusetts, May 29, 1855) was a political economist. He graduated at Harvard in 1818, studied theology, and became a Unitarian minister. He afterward pursued a medical course, receiving his diploma in 1833, and practised medicine for about ten years in Boston and West Roxbury.

Works Statistical View of the Population of Massachusetts from 1765 to 1840 (Boston, 1846) Emigration into the United States (1848) Reports on the Census of Boston (1851) Letter addressed to the President of the United States on Slavery, considered in Relation to the Principles of Constitutional Government in Great Britain and in the United States (1855)