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Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson became the first African-American professional baseball player of the modern era in 1947. While not the first African American professional baseball player in history, his Major League debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers ended approximately eighty years of baseball segregation, also known as the baseball color line. The Baseball Hall of Fame inducted Robinson in 1962 and he was a member of six World Series teams. - Sherwood C. Spring
Sherwood Clark "Woody" Spring is a retired United States Army Colonel and former NASA astronaut. - Prescott Sheldon Bush
Prescott Sheldon Bush was a United States Senator from Connecticut and a Wall Street executive banker with Brown Brothers Harriman. He was the father of former U.S. President George H. W. Bush and the grandfather of current President George W. Bush. - Raynal Bolling
Colonel Raynal Cawthorne Bolling was the first high-ranking U.S. officer to be killed in combat in World War I. He laid the foundation for the U. S. Military Aviation Service. He was ambushed by German troops near the front lines on the Amiens-Saint-Quentin road (the modern N29) during the second Somme offensive. The spot is a few kilometers east of the commune of Estrées-Deniécourt, Picardy, France. He was the namesake of Bolling Air Force Base. - Benjamin Hinman
Colonel Benjamin Hinman was a US soldier and member of the Connecticut legistature. He was born to Benjamin Hinman (b. 1692) and Sarah Sherman in Woodbury, Litchfield County, Connecticut and died in Southbury, New Haven County, Connecticut. He served as quartermaster of a troop in the French and Indian War in 1751 under General Roger Wolcott. He received his commission as captain in 1755 in the regiment of Colonel Elizur Goodrich. - Henry Mucci
Henry A. Mucci (1909-April 20, 1997) was a U.S. Army colonel and Ranger. He was famous for leading the raid that rescued survivors of the Bataan Death March during World War II. With only 120 Army Rangers, Mucci headed the January 1945 mission that freed 511 men from Cabanatuan Prison Camp despite being heavily outnumbered. - David Humphreys
David Humphreys (July 10, 1752 - February 21, 1818) was a Revolutionary War colonel and aide de camp to George Washington, American ambassador to Portugal and then to Spain, entrepreneur who brought Merino sheep to America and member of the Connecticut state legislature. A poet and author, he was one of the "Hartford Wits." - Paul Fussell
Paul Fussell (born March 22, 1924, Pasadena, California, USA) is a cultural and literary historian, and professor emeritus of English literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of books on eighteenth-century English literature, the world wars, and social class, among others. Fussell was drafted into the Army in 1943, at age 19. In October 1944 he landed in France, as part of the 103rd Infantry Division. - William J. Fetterman
William Judd Fetterman (1833? - December 21, 1866) was an officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War and the subsequent Red Cloud's War on the Great Plains. Fetterman and all his immediate command were killed during the Fetterman massacre. Fetterman was probably born in New London, Connecticut, although there is some uncertainty. He enlisted in the Union army in Delaware in 1861. - Thomas J. Watson Jr.
Thomas John Watson, Jr. (January 14 1914 - December 31 1993) was the president of IBM from 1952 to 1971 and the eldest son of Thomas J. Watson, IBM's first president. He was listed as one of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people of the 20th century. - Hiram Bingham III
Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham III, (19 November 1875 - 6 June 1956) was an American academic, explorer and politician. He rediscovered the Inca settlement of Machu Picchu in 1911. Later, Bingham served as Governor of Connecticut and a member of the United States Senate. - Rob Simmons
Robert Ruhl Simmons (born February 11 1943), American politician, was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2007, representing the 2nd Congressional District of Connecticut. He was defeated by Democratic challenger Joe Courtney in the 2006 elections by a razor-thin margin of 83 votes. Born in New York City, Simmons was educated at Haverford College and served in the United States Army and the Central Intelligence Agency. - Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder (April 17, 1897 - December 7, 1975) was an American playwright and novelist. - John Q. Tilson
John Quillin Tilson (April 5, 1866-August 14, 1958) was a Republican politician in the United States, on both state and national levels, and a lawyer. Tilson was born in Clearbranch, Tennessee, on April 5 1866. He attended both public and private schools in nearby Flag Pond and later at Mars Hill, North Carolina. He went to college at Carson-Newman College, in Jefferson City, Tennessee, where he graduated in 1888. - Louis O. Giuffrida
Louis Onorato Giuffrida was the Ronald Reagan administration's first director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency from 1981 to 1985. Giuffrida graduated from the University of Connecticut (B.A.) and Boston University (M.A.). He had a lengthy career in the U.S. Army, attaining the rank of colonel in 1968. In 1971 he left the Army and organized the California Specialized Training Institute for then California Governor Reagan. - Abner W. Sibal
Abner Woodruff Sibal (April 11, 1921 - January 27, 2000) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut. Born in Ridgewood, New York, Sibal graduated from Norwalk High School in 1938. He was in the Wesleyan University, A.B., 1943, and St. John's Law School, LL.B., 1949. Enlisted in the United States Army in March 1943, served in the European and Pacific Theaters, and was discharged as a first lieutenant in September 1946. - Henry Leavenworth
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