Governor of Connecticut, 1941-1943
Born: August 25, 1895, Bridgeport, Connecticut
College: Lehigh University
Political Party: Democrat
Offices: Governor of Connecticut, 1941-1943
Died: May 3, 1968, West Hartford, Connecticut
The election of Robert Hurley marked the first time that Connecticut placed a Catholic into the office of governor. It had taken just over 300 years for t...
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Connecticut Governors
<p>Connecticut governors</p>
Raymond Earl Baldwin
Governor of Connecticut, 1939-1941, 1943-1946
Born: August 31, 1893, Rye, New York
College: Wesleyan University, 1916; Yale Law School, 1921
Political Party: Republican
Offices: Stratford Town Court, Prosecutor, 1927-1930
Stratford Town Court, Judge, 1931-1933
Connecticut General Assembly, House, 1930-1935
Governor of Connecticut, 1939-1941, 1943-1946
US Senate, 1946-1949
Assoc...
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Wilbur Lucius Cross
Governor of Connecticut, 1931-1939
Born: April 10, 1862, Mansfield, Connecticut
College: Yale, 1885; Yale Ph.D., 1889
Political Party: Democrat
Offices: Governor of Connecticut, 1931-1939
Died: October 5, 1948, New Haven, Connecticut
The Republicans’ hold on the office of governor in Connecticut came to an end in 1931 when Wilbur Cross was inaugurated. Cross seemed t...
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John Harper Trumbull
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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