First Company Governor’s Foot Guard
Statutory Authority :
CGS 27-6a.
1771, October, established.
Published Histories/Articles :
Connecticut. Governor’s Foot Guard. Company, First. Bicentennial Anniversary : September 30 thru October 2, 1971. Hartford : The Company, [1971]
[CSL Call Number ConnDoc G748fh bi]
Fowles, Lloyd W. An Honor to the State: The Bicentennial History of the First Company, Governor’s Foot Guard, Hartford, Connecticut, 1771-1971. Hartford : Bond Press, 1971.
[CSL Call Number ConnDoc G748fh ho]
Shipman, Arthur Leffingwell, The Governor’s Guard of Connecticut : An Address on its 150th Anniversary, October 19, 1921 & The Hartford Convention, An Address, December 16, 1898. Hartford : Case Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1934. [CSL Call Number F94.5 .S56 1934]
History at Governor’s Foot Guard, First Company web page.
Agency Documents in the State Library Collections :
Check the State Library catalog, Primo Discovery Tool, under these author headings for publications by the agency available in the State Library :
Connecticut Governors Foot Guard.
Annual Reports are located in :
1876-1945, Biennial Report of the Adjutant General. [CSL Call Number ConnDoc Ad44 r]
1945-2001, Digest of Administrative Reports to the Governor, under Military Dept. [CSL Call Number ConnDoc F40 d], and 2002 -, the online version
State Archives Record Group : RG 013 (Military Dept.)
| Name | Years of Service |
| Samuel Wyllys | Oct. 1771-May 1777 |
| Jonathan Bull | May 1777-May 1785 |
| Charles Hopkins | May 1785-May 1795 |
| George Bull | May 1795-May 1797 |
| Joseph Day | May 1797-May 1798 |
| Jesse Root, Jr. | May 1798-Oct. 1802 |
| Nathaniel Terry | Oct. 1802-June 3, 1813 |
| Isaac D. Bull | June 3, 1813-June 8, 1816 |
| Richard E. Goodwin | June 8, 1816-May 13, 1819 |
| James M. Goodwin | May 13, 1819-May 16, 1823 |
| Lynde Olmsted | May 22, 1823-Apr. 5, 1826 |
| Charles Wells | Apr. 5, 1826-Feb. 9, 1828 |
| George Putnam | Feb. 9, 1828-Apr. 30, 1830 |
| Jonathan Goodwin | Apr. 30, 1830-Feb. 28, 1832 |
| Edmund B. Stedman | Feb. 28, 1832-May 15, 1833 |
| Calvin Day | May 15, 1833-Feb. 18, 1835 |
| James G. Bolles | Feb. 18, 1835-Aug. 7, 1835 |
| Henry Oakes | Aug. 7, 1835-Nov. 3, 1836 |
| Griffin A. Stedman | Nov. 3, 1836-May 21, 1838 |
| Henry L. Miller | May 21, 1838-Sept. 28, 1838 |
| Roland Mather | Sept. 28, 1838-March 2, 1840 |
| William B. Ely | March 2, 1840-Sept. 1, 1841 |
| Henry P. Averill | Sept. 1, 1841-March 11, 1843 |
| Henry P. Sweetser | March 11, 1843-Sept. 6, 1844 |
| Leonard H. Bacon | Sept. 6, 1844-March 10, 1847 |
| William Conner, Jr. | March 10, 1847-May 9, 1850 |
| Leverett Seymour | May 9, 1850-Apr. 22, 1861 |
| Jonathan Goodwin | Apr. 22, 1861-Dec. 4, 1862 |
| Lucius E. Hunt | Dec. 4, 1862-Oct. 5, 1865 |
| Henry C. Ransom | Oct. 5, 1865-Feb. 15, 1867 |
| Henry P. Barton | Feb. 15, 1867-June 5, 1871 |
| William H. Dodd | June 5, 1871-Jan. 2, 1874 |
| Charles C. Osborne | Jan. 2, 1874-Feb. 6, 1875 (died) |
| John C. Parsons | March 12, 1875-Apr. 16, 1877 |
| William H. Talcott | Apr. 16, 1877-July 23, 1879 |
| George B. Fisher | July 23, 1879-Feb. 28, 1881 |
| A.H. Embler | Feb. 28, 1881-Jan. 30, 1882 |
| John C. Kinney | Jan. 30, 1882-Apr. 22, 1891 |
| E. Henry Hyde | July 6, 1891-Oct. 18, 1898 |
| Louis R. Cheney | Oct. 18, 1898-Mar. 16, 1903 |
| Fred R. Bill | Mar. 16, 1903-Dec. 3, 1906 |
| Louis R. Cheney | Dec. 3, 1906-Nov. 9, 1908 |
| Frank L. Wilcox | Nov. 9, 1908-March 15, 1915 |
| Charles H. Slocum | Mar. 15, 1915-Nov. 28, 1916 |
| Charles E. Stedman | Nov. 28, 1916-Mar. 8, 1920 |
| Lucius A. Barbour | Mar. 8, 1920-Feb. 20, 1922 |
| Clarence S. Wadsworth | Feb. 20, 1922-Mar. 26, 1923 |
| Louis H. Stanley | Mar. 26, 1923-Nov. 21, 1927 |
| Alvan Waldo Hyde | Nov. 21, 1927-June 18, 1934 |
| George H. Sturges | June 18, 1934-Sept. 19, 1940 |
| Ernest L. Averill | Sept. 19, 1940-Sept. 1, 1942 |
| Raymond F. Gates | Sept. 1, 1942-Jan. 25, 1953 |
| John B. Carvalho | Apr. 27, 1953-June 30, 1958 |
| Warren S. Whitney | Sept. 8, 1958-July 1, 1963 |
| Robbins W. Allen | Aug. 5, 1963-May 11, 1964 |
| George W. Tule | June 15, 1964-1972 |
| William A. Lehmann | 1973-1978 |
| Justin A. DeNino | 1979-1982 |
| Anthony J. Shelto | 1983-1987 |
| Clifford H. Erikson | 1988-1991 |
| Rocco V. Laraia, Jr. | 1992-1995 |
| Robert A. Burnham | 1996-1999 |
| John L. O’Connell | 2000-2003 |
| Dennis P. Conroy | 2004-2006 |
| William Oefinger | 2007-Present |
Prepared by the Government Information and Reference Services Unit, page revised 7/2008.