Henry Chapin (May 13, 1811 – October 13, 1878) was a judge, a state legislator, and a three-term mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts.

[1] He served as an educator in Upton,[1] studied law at Cambridge, and passed the Massachusetts Bar in 1838.

[1] In 1848, he was appointed chief Judge of the Worcester County Probate and Insolvency Court.

[1] In 1853, Mayor Chapin was nominated by the Republican Party for a Congressional seat, which he declined.

[2] In 1864, he delivered a later published historical address in Uxbridge, which records the story of America's first legal colonial woman voter.