Joseph Hungerford Brainerd

Joseph Hungerford Brainerd (March 22, 1801 – March 28, 1879) was an American lawyer, newspaper editor, and politician.

Early life and education Brainerd, eldest child of Joseph S. and Hannah (Hungerford) Brainerd, was born in Chatham, now Portland, Connecticut, on March 22, 1801. His parents moved in 1803 to Troy, New York, and in 1808 to St. Albans, Vermont. He spent two and a half years in the University of Vermont, and then entered Yale College, where he graduated in 1822. Brainerd died at the family homestead, March 28, 1879, aged 78 years.