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Connecticut: Governors


Governors of Connecticut, 1776-2006 (May be incomplete!)
Jonathan Trumbull 1776-84 Matthew Griswold 1784-86 Samuel Huntington 1786-96 Oliver Wolcott, Sr. 1796-97 Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. 1797-1809 John Treadwell 1809-11 Roger Griswold 1811-12 John Cotton Smith 1812-17 Oliver Wolcott, Jr. 1817-27 Gideon Tomlinson 1827-31 John S. Peters 1831-33 Henry W. Edwards 1833-34 Samuel A. Foot 1834-35 Henry W. Edwards 1835-38 William W. Ellsworth 1838-42 Chauncey F. Cleveland 1842-44 Roger S. Baldwin 1844-46 Isaac Toucey 1846-47 Clark Bissell 1847-49 Joseph Trumbull 1849-50 Thomas H. Seymour 1850-53 Charles Hobby Pond 1853-54 Henry Dutton 1854-55 William T. Minor 1855-57 Alexander H. Holley 1857-58 William Alfred Buckingham 1858-66 Joseph R. Hawley 1866-67 James E. English 1867-69 Marshall Jewell 1869-70 James E. English 1870-71 Marshall Jewell 1871-73 Charles R. Ingersoll 1873-77 Richard D. Hubbard 1877-79 Charles B. Andrews 1879-81 Hobart B. Bigelow 1881-83 Thomas M. Waller 1883-85 Henry B. Harrison 1885-87 Phineas Chapman Lounsbury 1887-89 Morgan G. Bulkeley 1889-93 Luzon B. Morris 1893-95 O. Vincent Coffin 1895-97 Lorrin A. Cooke 1897-99 George E. Lounsbury 1899-1901 George P. McLean 1901-03 Abiram Chamberlain 1903-05 Henry Roberts 1905-07 Rollin S. Woodruff 1907-09 George L. Lilley 1909 Frank B. Weeks 1909-11 Simeon E. Baldwin 1911-15 Marcus H. Holcomb 1915-21 Everett Lake 1921-23 Charles Augustus Templeton 1923-25 Hiram Bingham 1925 John H. Trumbull 1925-31 Wilbur L. Cross 1931-39 Raymond E. Baldwin 1939-41 Robert A. Hurley 1941-43 Raymond E. Baldwin 1943-46 C. Wilbert Snow 1946-47 James L. McConaughy 1947-48 James C. Shannon 1948-49 Chester Bowles 1949-51 John Davis Lodge 1951-55 Abraham A. Ribicoff 1955-61 John Dempsey 1961-71 Thomas J. Meskill 1971-75 Ella T. Grasso 1975-80 William A. O'Neill 1980-91 Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. 1991-95 John G. Rowland 1995-2004 M. Jodi Rell 2004-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1796 Jan 5: Samuel Huntington, died in office.
  • 1797 Dec 1: Oliver Wolcott, Sr., died in office.
  • 1809 Aug 7: Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., died in office.
  • 1812 Oct 25: Roger Griswold, died in office.
  • 1839: John M. Niles, defeated.
  • 1840: John M. Niles, defeated.
  • 1848: George S. Catlin (Dem), defeated.
  • 1850: Lafayette S. Foster, defeated.
  • 1851: Lafayette S. Foster, defeated.
  • 1854: Charles Chapman, defeated.
  • 1858: James T. Pratt (Dem), defeated.
  • 1859: James T. Pratt (Dem), defeated.
  • 1863: Thomas H. Seymour, defeated.
  • 1864: Origen Storrs Seymour (Dem), defeated.
  • 1865: Origen Storrs Seymour (Dem), defeated.
  • 1874: Henry B. Harrison (Rep), defeated.
  • 1878: Richard D. Hubbard, defeated.
  • 1880: Hobart B. Bigelow, elected.
  • 1882: Thomas M. Waller (Dem), elected.
  • 1884: Henry B. Harrison (Rep), elected.
  • 1886: Phineas Chapman Lounsbury, elected.
  • 1888: Luzon B. Morris (Dem), defeated.
  • 1890: Luzon B. Morris (Dem), defeated.
  • 1892: Luzon B. Morris (Dem), elected.
  • 1894: O. Vincent Coffin, elected.
  • 1896: Lorrin A. Cooke, elected.
  • 1898: George E. Lounsbury, elected; Daniel N. Morgan (Dem), defeated.
  • 1900 Nov 6: George P. McLean (Rep), elected; Samuel L. Bronson (Dem), defeated; Charles E. Steele (Prohibition), defeated; George A. Sweetland (Social Democratic), defeated; Marx (Socialist Labor), defeated.
  • 1902: Melbert Brinkerhoff Cary (Dem), defeated.
  • 1902 Nov 4: Abiram Chamberlain (Rep), elected; Melbert B. Carey (Dem), defeated; Wheeler (Socialist), defeated; Stanley (Prohibition), defeated; Oatley (Socialist Labor), defeated.
  • 1904: Henry Roberts (Rep), elected; A. Heaton Robinson (Dem), defeated.
  • 1909 Apr 21: George L. Lilley, died in office.
  • 1912: John Payne Studley (Rep), defeated.
  • 1918: Thomas J. Spellacy (Dem), defeated.
  • 1934: Hugh M. Alcorn (Rep), defeated.
  • 1938: Jasper McLevy (Socialist), defeated; Devere Allen (Labor), defeated.
  • 1940: Devere Allen (Labor), defeated.
  • 1946: Joseph E. Talbot, defeated for nomination.
  • 1948 Mar 7: James L. McConaughy, died in office.
  • 1950: William A. Purtell, defeated for nomination.
  • 1962: John Alsop (Rep), defeated.
  • 1974: Robert H. Steele (Rep), defeated.
  • 1980 Dec 31: Ella T. Grasso, resigned.
  • 1990: John G. Rowland, defeated.
  • 1994: John G. Rowland (Rep), elected.
  • 1998: Barbara B. Kennelly, defeated; John G. Rowland (Rep), elected.
  • 2002: John G. Rowland (Rep), elected.
  • 2004 Jul 1: John G. Rowland, resigned.

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