Talk:Thomas Chittenden

Misleading infobox
The infobox in this article seems misleading. It discusses 18th-century events by using concepts that developed later. When Congress admitted Kentucky and Tennessee to the Union in the 1790s, they were both new states that did not exist until their admission to the Union. They were the first among many of that sort. Thus when William Allen Egan became the first governor of the state of Alaska on January 3, 1959, he was assuming a different office from that of Waino Edward Hendrickson who at that time left office as governor of the territory of Alaska. Nothing like that happened in Vermont. Chittenden was sworn in as governor of the state of Vermont in October 1790, under the constitution of the state of Vermont, and when Vermont was admitted to the Union during his one-year term of office he continued to hold the same office of governor of the state of Vermont, under the same constitution of Vermont that continued in effect. Those who think he assumed a different office within a different government rather than continuing in the same office in the same state are mistakenly applying to the situation concepts that developed later because of different circumstances. Michael Hardy (talk) 01:15, 19 July 2015 (UTC)