Hiram Chapman was elected President of the Maine Senate to fill out the term of Joseph H. Williams when Williams became acting Governor.
Chapman was born in Nobleboro on October 16, 1808 the son of a farmer and became a mechanic by trade.
A Selectman for a number of years, he held the rank of Colonel in the State Militia and represented his town for nine years in the Legislature.
A Justice of the Peace and Judge of Probate he also served the State as its Land Agent for one year and served one term in the Maine House in 1853.
Evidently a man of some religious zeal he belonged to the Second Baptist Church in Damariscotta when he died on March 15, 1864.
His nineteenth century biographer goes on at some length about his consistent christianity. While this in itself is not unusual for the period the last few words are somewhat amusing: "buried in Damariscotta; but rests in Heaven."