Reunion Society of Vermont Officers

The Reunion Society of Vermont Officers was an organization of American Civil War veterans.

In addition, the group conducted an annual reunion, at different cities in the state, at which it elected officers for the upcoming year.

Senator Redfield Proctor, Interstate Commerce Commission member Wheelock G. Veazey, and Governors Peter T. Washburn, Roswell Farnham, John L. Barstow, Samuel E. Pingree, Ebenezer J. Ormsbee, Urban A. Woodbury, Josiah Grout, and Charles J.

[3] One of the Vermont Republican party's devices for maintaining order and avoiding primary elections was to restrict governors to two one-year terms.

These provisions were made possible in large part because members of the Reunion Society who were likely candidates for office agreed to abide by them in the interests of party unity.