- Ned Lamont
Edward Miner Lamont, Jr. (born January 3, 1954) was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for the United States Senate in the Connecticut United States Senate election held on on November 7 2006. He faced incumbent Senator Joe Lieberman, running as in independent, as well as Republican nominee Alan Schlesinger and Green Party candidate Ralph Ferrucci in a four-way general election in November, … - William O'Neill
William Atchison O'Neill (born August 11, 1930) is a U.S. political figure. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut in 1978 on a Democratic ticket along with Governor Ella Grasso. When Grasso resigned for health reasons in December 1980, O'Neill became Governor. O'Neill was elected to a full term in 1982 and re-elected in 1986. Prior to serving as Lieutenant Governor O'Neill served as the state representative from East Hampton, … - Chris Shays
Christopher H. Shays, usually known as Chris Shays (born October 18 1945), American politician, has been a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives since 1987, representing the 4th District of Connecticut, which includes 17 towns in Southwest Connecticut. He is the only House Republican left from New England. All the others were defeated in the 2006 midterm elections. - Chris Murphy
Christopher S. "Chris" Murphy is an American politician, member of the Democratic Party. He is a former Connecticut State Senator, and the current United States Representative from Connecticut’s 5th District (map). Murphy has recently finished his second term from the 16th State Senatorial District that includes the towns of Waterbury, Southington, Wolcott and Cheshire. His successor in the State Senate is Republican Sam Caligiuri. - M. Jodi Rell
Mary Jodi Rell (born June 16, 1946) is a Republican politician who became the 72nd Governor of the U.S. state of Connecticut on July 1, 2004. She had been the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut until Governor John G. Rowland resigned during a corruption investigation. Rell is Connecticut's second female Governor. Born Mary Carolyn Reavis in Norfolk, Virginia, Rell attended Old Dominion University, but left in 1967 to marry Lou Rell, a US Navy pilot. - Tim O'Brien
Tim O'Brien (born June 13, 1968) is a Connecticut State Representative. He is a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives and represents the Twenty-Fourth Assembly District, which includes parts of New Britain and Newington, Connecticut. O'Brien was first elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 2002, having previously served as a member of the New Britain City Council for five years. - John Larson
John B. Larson (born July 22 1948), American politician, has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1999, representing (map). He was born in Hartford, Connecticut and educated at Central Connecticut State University. Larson was a teacher and served on the Board of Education and Town Council of East Hartford. - Wilbur Lucius Cross
Wilbur Lucius Cross, Ph. D. (April 10 1862 - October 5 1948) was an American educator and political figure. Born in 1862 in Mansfield, Connecticut, he was a well-known literary critic and the Democratic Governor of Connecticut from 1931 to 1939. Cross was Professor of English at Yale University and was also Dean of the Yale Graduate School. He was also principal of Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut for a short time around 1885. - Diane Farrell
Diane Farrell (born August 10, 1955) is an American politician who was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Connecticut's 4th congressional district in 2004 and 2006. Farrell is a former elementary school teacher who later worked in the advertising industry and first became engaged in school politics when her children entered the public schools in Westport, Connecticut. Prior to running for elective office, she attended the Women's Campaign School at Yale University. - William Benton
William Burnett Benton was a U.S. senator from Connecticut (1949 - 1953) and publisher of the "Encyclopædia Britannica" (1943 - 1973). Benton was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was educated at Shattuck Military Academy, Faribault, Minnesota, and Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota until 1918, at which point he matriculated at Yale University, where he was admitted to the Zeta Psi fraternity. - Alan Schlesinger
Alan Schlesinger (born 1960) is an attorney, former Derby, Connecticut mayor, former Connecticut State Representative, and three-time unsuccessful Congressional candidate who received the Republican nomination for the seat representing Connecticut that is currently held by U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman and was contested in the 2006 election. - Kevin Sullivan
Kevin B. Sullivan, a Democrat, was Connecticut's 106th Lieutenant Governor. He was elected to the State Senate in 1986 and served as Senate President Pro Tempore from 1997 - 2004. Upon Governor John G. Rowland's resignation, Lieutenant Governor M. Jodi Rell became governor. The Senate President, Sullivan, was then sworn in as Lieutenant Governor on July 1, 2004. Prior to his election to the State Senate, he was mayor of West Hartford (since West Hartford has a town manager, … - Sam Caligiuri
Samuel S.F. "Sam" Caligiuri (b. 1966) is a Connecticut politician and lawyer. In November 2006 he was elected to the Connecticut State Senate to represent the 16th District, which comprises the eastern half of Waterbury as well as the city's eastern suburbs of Cheshire, Southington, and Wolcott. A native of Waterbury, he is presently a partner with the Hartford office of Day Pitney, Connecticut's largest law firm. - Michael Fedele
Michael Fedele, a Republican, is Connecticut's 107th Lieutenant Governor. - Roger Wolcott
Roger Wolcott (January 4, 1679- May 17, 1767) was an American weaver and statesman from Windsor, Connecticut. He served as colonial governor of Connecticut between 1751 and 1754. Roger was born to Simon and Martha (Pitkin) Wolcott in Windsor, Connecticut. His formal education was severely limited by the nature of the frontier village, so at age twelve he was apprenticed to a weaver, and later entered that business on his own. - John Droney
John Droney is a Connecticut politician and lawyer. He is the senior partner of Levy & Droney, a large law firm based in Farmington, Connecticut. A native of West Hartford, Connecticut, Droney is a graduate of College of the Holy Cross and the University of Connecticut School of Law. He is former Chairman of the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee and was a member of the Democratic National Committee. - Brien McMahon
Brien McMahon (b. October 6 1903, Norwalk, Connecticut - d. July 28 1952, Washington, D.C.) was born James O'Brien McMahon. McMahon was an American lawyer and politician who served in the United States Senate (as a Democrat from Connecticut) from 1945 to 1952. McMahon was a major figure in the establishment of the Atomic Energy Commission, through his authorship of the Atomic Energy Act of 1946 (the McMahon Act). - Eunice Groark
Eunice Groark (b. 1938) was elected the first female lieutenant governor of Connecticut in 1990. Groark ran on a ticket with Lowell Weicker, both of whom were members of "A Connecticut Party". Weicker won with 41% of the vote. Prior to her election as Lieutenant Governor, Groark served as Corporation Counsel of the City of Hartford from 1987 to 1990. Before that, she was a Republican member of Hartford's City Council. - James Amann
James A. Amann (born 1956, in Bridgeport, Connecticut) is a Connecticut State Representative. He is a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives and represents the One Hundred Eighteenth Assembly District, which includes part of Milford, Connecticut. Amann was first elected to office in 1990 and has served as the Speaker of the House since being elected to that position prior to the 2005 Legislative Session. - Thomas Fitch
Thomas Fitch (c. 1700 - July 18, 1774) was governor of the Connecticut Colony from 1754 to 1766. Fitch was born in Norwalk, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale in 1721. Fitch served as Norwalk Justice of the Peace, Deputy and Assistant to the Connecticut General Assembly, Deputy Governor, Chief Justice (to the Connecticut Superior Court), and finally Governor of the Colony of Connecticut. Fitch died July 18, 1774. He is buried in the East Norwalk Historical Cemetery. - Henry Baldwin Harrison
Henry Baldwin Harrison (1821-1901) was a Republican politician and the Governor of Connecticut. - Ansel Sterling
Ansel Sterling (February 3, 1782 - November 6, 1853) was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was the brother of Micah Sterling who was a United States Representative from New York. He was born in Lyme, Connecticut where he attended the common schools. Later, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1805. He commenced practice in Salisbury, Connecticut before moving to Sharon, Connecticut in 1808 where he continued the practice of his profession. - P. T. Barnum
Phineas Taylor Barnum (July 5, 1810 - April 7, 1891), was an American showman who is best remembered for his entertaining hoaxes and for founding the circus that eventually became Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus. "Barnum" is the title of an award winning Broadway musical based on P. T. Barnum's life and exploits. He is also represented in the Hollywood film "Gangs Of New York." - John Milton Niles
John Milton Niles (August 20, 1787 - May 30, 1856) was a lawyer, editor, author and politician from Connecticut, serving in the United States Senate and as United States Postmaster General 1840 to 1841. Born in Windsor, Connecticut, Niles received a common school education and studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1817 and practiced in Hartford, Connecticut. There, he also established a newspaper, the "Hartford Weekly Times", … - Jerome F. Donovan
Jerome Francis Donovan (February 11872 - November 21949) was a United States Representative from New York. Donovan was born in New Haven, Connecticut on February 11872. He attended the public schools; was graduated from the law department of Yale University in 1894; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in New Haven; captain of Company C, Second Regiment of the Connecticut Army National Guard, … - George Wyllys
George Wyllis (born 1590-died March 9, 1645) served for a year (1642) as one of the early governors of the Connecticut Colony. Born at the manor of Fenny Compton in Warwickshire, England, to Richard and Hester (Chambers) Willis, part of an old, wealthy family. He attended several universities, "but biographers make no mention of him graduating," according to an online biographical sketch of Wyllys at the Connecticut State Library and Museum Web site. - John Winthrop The Younger
John Winthrop (February 12, 1606-April 5, 1676), generally known as John Winthrop the Younger, was governor of Connecticut. He was born in Groton, England, as the son of John Winthrop, the founding governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He was educated at the Bury St Edmunds grammar school and at Trinity College, Dublin, studied law for a short time after 1624 at the Inner Temple, London, … - John Denison Baldwin
John Denison Baldwin (September 28, 1809 - July 8, 1883) was an American politician, Congregationalist minister, newspaper editor, and popular anthropological writer. He was a member of the Connecticut State House of Representatives and later a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts. - Jack Orchulli
Jack Orchulli (born 1946) is a Darien, Connecticut millionaire businessman who was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for the Connecticut seat held by Christopher Dodd in the U.S. Senate election, 2004. Orchulli won 33% of the vote after loaning his campaign $1.5 million, but he never improved from long-shot standing against incumbent Senator Christopher Dodd, who won his 5th consecutive term for the Democrats with 65%. Orchulli ran with no prior political experience. - Robert H. Steele
Robert Hampton Steele (born 3 November 1938) is a retired American politician. Steele was born in Hartford, Connecticut. His father, known as Bob Steele, was host of the state's top rated morning show on WTIC-AM for more than fifty years. He attended public schools in Wethersfield, Connecticut and obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College, Massachusetts in 1960. He graduated from Columbia University in 1963. - Francis Newman
Francis Newman (?-1660) was an English colonist in America, Governor of the New Haven Colony in 1658-59. He was born in England and emigrated to New Hampshire in 1634, but shortly thereafter removed to the Connecticut valley and became prominent in the affairs of the colony at New Haven. In 1653, he was one of the commissioners sent from the Connecticut River towns to Manhattan to demand reparation of Peter Stuyvesant, Governor of New Netherlands, … - Lancelot Phelps
Lancelot Phelps (November 9, 1784 - September 1, 1866) was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was the father of James Phelps who was also a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was born in Windsor, Connecticut before moving with his family to Colebrook, Connecticut in 1794. He attended the common schools and the studied medicine and commenced practice in Colebrook, Connecticut. - Julius Hotchkiss
Julius Hotchkiss (July 11, 1810 - December 23, 1878) was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, the son of Woodward and Polly (Castle) Hotchkiss, Prospect farmers. At seventeen, he taught in Prospect schools. He later moved to Waterbury and ran a store and a factory that made cotton webbing and suspenders. - Thaddeus Betts
Thaddeus Betts (b. February 4 1789, Norwalk, Connecticut - d. April 7 1840, Washington, D.C.) was a United States Senator from Connecticut. He completed preparatory studies and was graduated from Yale College in 1807. Betts studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1810 and commenced practice in Norwalk. He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1815 and 1830, and a member of the Connecticut Senate in 1831. - Samuel Simons
Samuel Simons (1792 - January 13, 1847) was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut where he pursued an academic course of study. He held several local offices and also taught school. He also studied medicine and commenced practice in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Simons was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1830. - Sylvester Gilbert
Sylvester Gilbert (October 20, 1755 - January 2, 1846) was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was born in Hebron, Connecticut. He pursued classical studies and was graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire in 1775. Later, he studied law, was admitted to the bar in November 1777, and commenced practice in Hebron. Gilbert was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives 1780-1812. - Jonathan Ingersoll
Jonathan Ingersoll was the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1816 to 1823. - William Henry Barnum
William Henry Barnum (Boston Corners, Massachusetts, September 17 1818 - April 30 1889) was a United States politician, serving as a state representative, U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and finally as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. He was known as Seven Mule Barnum. Though born in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Barnum moved to Lime Rock in Connecticut and served in the state house of representatives from 1851 to 1852. - Elisha Phelps
Elisha Phelps (November 16, 1779 - April 6, 1847) was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was father of John Smith Phelps who was a United States Representative from Missouri. He was born in Simsbury, Connecticut. In 1800, he was graduated from Yale College and from Litchfield Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1803 and began practice in Simsbury. Phelps was member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1807, 1812, and 1814-1818. - Carlos French
Carlos French was a United States Representative from Connecticut. He was born in Humphreysville, Connecticut which is now know as Seymour, Connecticut. He attended the common schools of Seymour and General Russell’s Military School, New Haven, Connecticut. He engaged in manufacturing and is credited with inventing the spiral steel car spring and the corrugated volute spring. French was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1860 and again in 1868.
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