Governor of Connecticut, 1925-1931
Born: March 4, 1873, Ashford, Connecticut
College: None
Political Party: Republican
Offices: Senator, Connecticut General Assembly, 1921-1925
President Pro Tem, Senate, Connecticut General Assembly, 1923-1925
Lieutenant Governor, 1925
Governor, 1925-1931
Died: May 21, 1961, Hartford, Connecticut
Despite his famous Connecticut name,...
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Charles Augustus Templeton
Governor of Connecticut, 1923-1925
Born: March 3, 1871, Sharon, Connecticut
College: None
Political Party: Republican
Offices: Senator, Connecticut General Assembly, 1919-1920
Lieutenant Governor, 1921-1923
Governor, 1923-1925
Died: August 15, 1955, Waterbury, Connecticut
A newspaper article compared the life of Charles Augustus Templeton to an Horatio Alger story.1 He was bor...
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Everett John Lake
Governor of Connecticut, 1921-1923
Born: February 8, 1871, Woodstock, Connecticut
College: Worcester Polytechnic, Bachelor of Science, 1890
Harvard, Bachelor of Arts, 1892
Political Party: Republican
Offices: Representative, Connecticut General Assembly, 1903-1905
Senator, Connecticut General Assembly, 1905-1907
Lieutenant Governor, 1907-1909
Governor, 1921-1923
Died: September...
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Marcus Hensey Holcomb
Governor of Connecticut, 1915-1921
Born: November 28, 1844, New Hartford, CT
College: None
Political Party: Democrat; Republican
Offices: Judge, Southington Probate District, 1873-1910
Treasurer of Hartford County, 1893-1910
Connecticut General Assembly, Senate, 1893
Speaker, CT House of Representatives, 1905-1906
First Judge, Borough Court of Southington, 1906-1909
Conne...
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Simeon Eben Baldwin
Governor of Connecticut, 1911-1915
Born: February 5, 1840, New Haven, Connecticut
College: Yale, 1861
Political Party: Republican, Democrat
Offices: Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, 1893-1910
Chief Justice, Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, 1907-1910
Governor of Connecticut, 1911-1915
Died: January 30, 1927, New Haven, Connecticut
In 1910, the Chief Justice of the Conn...
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William Alfred Buckingham
Governor of Connecticut, 1858-1866
Born: May 28, 1804, Lebanon, Connecticut
College: None
Political Party: Whig; Republican
Offices: Mayor, Norwich, Connecticut, 1849, 1850, 1856, 1857
Governor of Connecticut, 1858-1866
U.S. Senate, 1869-1875
Died: February 5, 1875, Norwich, Connecticut
The Buckingham family had been in Connecticut several generations by the tim...
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Isaac Toucey
Governor of Connecticut, 1846-1847
Born: 1796, probably at Newtown, Connecticut
College: None
Political Party: Democrat
Offices: State's Attorney for Hartford County, 1822-1835
U.S. House of Representatives, 1835-1839
State's Attorney for Hartford County, 1842-1844
Governor of Connecticut, 1846-1847
U.S. Attorney General, 1848-1849
Acting U.S. Secretary of State 1848 (temporary...
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Roger Sherman Baldwin
Governor of Connecticut, 1844-1846
Born: January 4, 1793, New Haven, Connecticut
College: Yale, 1811
Political Party: Federalist; Whig; Republican
Offices: New Haven Common Council, 1826
New Haven Board of Alderman, 1827
Senator, Connecticut General Assembly, 1837-1838
Representative, Connecticut General Assembly, 1840-1841
U.S. Senate, 1847-1851
Died: February 19, 1863, New Ha...
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Gideon Tomlinson
Governor of Connecticut, 1827-1831
Born: December 31, 1780, Stratford, Connecticut
College: Yale, 1802; Yale, Master of Arts, 1808
Politics: Toleration Party, Jeffersonian-Republican, National Republican, Whig
Offices: Representative, Connecticut General Assembly, 1817-1818
Clerk, Connecticut House of Representatives, 1817
Speaker, Connecticut House ...
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John Treadwell
Governor of Connecticut, 1809-1811
Born: November 23, 1745 at Farmington, Connecticut
College: Yale, 1767
Political Party: Federalist
Offices: Deputy, Connecticut General Assembly, 1776-1785, 1814-1815
Council of Assistants, 1785-1798
Justice of the Peace, Hartford County, 1777-1782, 1784-1795
Judge, Farmington Probate Court, 1784-1809
Judge, Hartford County County Court, 1795-...
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