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Politician members in Connecticut

  Edwin Robinson Allen (b. 1840) — also known as Edwin R. Allen — of Hopkinton, Washington County, R.I. Born in Windham, Windham County, Conn., November 26, 1840. Republican. Merchant; town clerk, Hopkinton, R.I., from 1867; Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island, 1894-97. Baptist. Member, Grand Army of the Republic. Interment at Pine Grove Cemetery, Hope Valley, Hopkinton, R.I.
  Relatives: Son of Edwin Allen and Ruth B. (Noyes) Allen; married, January 1, 1868, to Mary E. Thayer.
Thomas D. Bradstreet Thomas Dudley Bradstreet (1841-1915) — also known as Thomas D. Bradstreet — of Thomaston, Litchfield County, Conn. Born in Thomaston, Litchfield County, Conn., August 1, 1841. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; vice-president and general manager, Seth Thomas Clock Company; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1886; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1892; member of Connecticut state senate, 1903-05; Connecticut state comptroller, 1907-13; candidate for U.S. Representative from Connecticut 5th District, 1912. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons; Knights Templar; Sons of the Revolution; Grand Army of the Republic. Died in Thomaston, Litchfield County, Conn., August 15, 1915 (age 74 years, 14 days). Interment at Hillside Cemetery, Thomaston, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Rev. Thomas Jefferson Bradstreet and Amanda (Thomas) Bradstreet; brother of Albert Porter Bradstreet and George Parker Bradstreet; married, March 23, 1864, to Sarah M. Perry; sixth great-grandnephew of Thomas Welles; second cousin twice removed of James Doolittle Wooster; third cousin twice removed of John Appleton (1758-1829), Thomas Appleton, Leonard White and Blake C. Fisk; third cousin thrice removed of Josiah Cowles, John Adams and Simeon Baldwin; fourth cousin once removed of John James Appleton, John Appleton (1804-1891) and Jane Pierce.
  Political families: Appleton family of Boston, Massachusetts; Appleton family of Boston, Massachusetts; Appleton family of New Hampshire (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: Legislative History and Souvenir of Connecticut 1907-08
  Morgan Gardner Bulkeley (1837-1922) — also known as Morgan G. Bulkeley — of Brooklyn, Kings County, N.Y.; Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in East Haddam, Middlesex County, Conn., December 26, 1837. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; president, Aetna Life Insurance Company, 1870-1922; mayor of Hartford, Conn., 1880-88; defeated, 1878; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1884 (alternate), 1892, 1896; Governor of Connecticut, 1889-93; candidate for Republican nomination for Vice President, 1896; U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1905-11. Congregationalist. Member, Freemasons; Loyal Legion; Grand Army of the Republic; Sons of the Revolution; Society of the Cincinnati; Society of the War of 1812. First president of the National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs in 1876. Died in Hartford, Hartford County, Conn., November 6, 1922 (age 84 years, 315 days). Interment at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley and Lydia Smith (Morgan) Bulkeley; brother of William Henry Bulkeley and Mary Jerusha Bulkeley (who married Leveret Brainard); married, February 11, 1885, to Fannie Briggs Houghton; first cousin once removed of Edwin Denison Morgan; second cousin of William Frederick Morgan Rowland; second cousin once removed of Edwin Barber Morgan and Christopher Morgan; second cousin twice removed of John Taintor, Roger Taintor and Solomon Taintor; second cousin thrice removed of Waightstill Avery; third cousin once removed of John Adams Taintor, Henry G. Taintor and Alfred Avery Burnham; third cousin twice removed of Timothy Pitkin; fourth cousin once removed of Henry Meigs, William Whiting Boardman, Lorenzo Burrows and William Waigstill Avery.
  Political family: Bulkeley-Morgan-Brainard family of Hartford, Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — National Governors Association biography — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  Books about Morgan G. Bulkeley: Kevin Murphy, Crowbar Governor: The Life and Times of Morgan Gardner Bulkeley
  Maro Spaulding Chapman (1839-1907) — also known as Maro S. Chapman — of Manchester, Hartford County, Conn. Born in East Haddam, Middlesex County, Conn., February 13, 1839. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; postal envelope manufacturer; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1882; member of Connecticut state senate 2nd District, 1885-86; Republican Presidential Elector for Connecticut, 1901. Member, Freemasons; Odd Fellows; Grand Army of the Republic. Instrumental in the establishment of the Hartford, Manchester, Rockville Tramway Co. in 1895. Died in Yonkers, Westchester County, N.Y., March 2, 1907 (age 68 years, 17 days). Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Nathaniel Chapman and Hannah (Percival) Chapman; married 1861 to Lucy Woodbridge; married 1871 to Helen Robbins.
Charles H. Clark Charles Hull Clark (b. 1832) — also known as Charles H. Clark — of Milldale, Southington, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Southington, Hartford County, Conn., October 23, 1832. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; nut and bolt manufacturer; banker; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Southington, 1895-96, 1899-1900, 1905-06; president, Waterbury and Milldale Tramway Company, 1907. Congregationalist. Member, Grand Army of the Republic; Odd Fellows. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Son of Theodosius Clark and Chloe (Clark) Clark; brother of William Judson Clark; married, August 21, 1862, to Mary E. Dickerman; second cousin twice removed of Nathaniel Merriam; second cousin four times removed of Jonathan Brace; third cousin once removed of Elisha Hotchkiss Jr.; third cousin twice removed of Philip Frisbee, James Doolittle Wooster, Luther Hotchkiss and Levi Yale; third cousin thrice removed of Matthew Griswold and Thomas Kimberly Brace; fourth cousin of Charles M. Hotchkiss; fourth cousin once removed of Elisha Hotchkiss, Thomas Hale Sill, Samuel George Andrews and Levi Bacon Yale.
  Political family: Wolcott family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Image source: Men of Mark in Connecticut (1908)
  Samuel Fessenden (1847-1908) — of Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Rockland, Knox County, Maine, April 12, 1847. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; lawyer; bank director; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Stamford, 1875, 1879, 1895-96; Speaker of the Connecticut State House of Representatives, 1895-96; delegate to Republican National Convention from Connecticut, 1876, 1880, 1884 (alternate), 1888 (speaker), 1896 (member, Resolutions Committee; speaker); Secretary of Republican National Committee, 1884-88; member of Republican National Committee from Connecticut, 1896; member of Connecticut Republican State Central Committee, 1901; member of Connecticut state senate, 1905-08. Member, Grand Army of the Republic. Died in Stamford, Fairfield County, Conn., January 7, 1908 (age 60 years, 270 days). Interment at Woodland Cemetery, Stamford, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Samuel Clement Fessenden (1815-1882) and Mary Abigail Grosvenor (Abbe) Fessenden; brother of Joshua Abbe Fessenden and Oliver Grosvenor Fessenden; married 1873 to Helen Matilda Davenport (daughter of Theodore Davenport); nephew of William Pitt Fessenden, Thomas Amory Deblois Fessenden and Joseph Palmer Fessenden; uncle of Charles Milton Fessenden; grandson of Samuel Clement Fessenden (1784-1869); first cousin of James Deering Fessenden and Francis Fessenden; third cousin once removed of William Fessenden Allen; third cousin twice removed of Benjamin Fessenden, John Milton Fessenden and Charles Backus Hyde Fessenden; fourth cousin once removed of Ira A. Locke, Walter Fessenden, Samuel Fessenden (1845-1903), Richard Bradford Coolidge and Arthur William Coolidge.
  Political families: Fessenden family of Portland, Maine; Fessenden family of Maine and Massachusetts (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Charles W. Grosvenor (1839-1922) — of Pomfret, Windham County, Conn. Born in Pomfret, Windham County, Conn., May 11, 1839. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Connecticut state house of representatives from Pomfret, 1881, 1885; defeated, 1904; member of Connecticut state senate 17th District, 1886; Connecticut state treasurer, 1897-99. Member, Grand Army of the Republic. Died January 12, 1922 (age 82 years, 246 days). Interment at South Cemetery, Pomfret, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of John W. Grosvenor and Phebe G. (Spaulding) Grosvenor; married to Elizabeth Mathewson.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
Edward S. Roberts Edward Spellman Roberts (1842-1923) — also known as Edward S. Roberts — of East Canaan, North Canaan, Litchfield County, Conn. Born in Goshen, Litchfield County, Conn., April 15, 1842. Democrat. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; school teacher; creamery business; bank director; member of Connecticut state house of representatives, 1875, 1889; member of Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee, 1901; Connecticut state treasurer, 1913-15; defeated, 1906. Member, Freemasons; Royal Arch Masons; Grand Army of the Republic; Grange. Died April 9, 1923 (age 80 years, 359 days). Interment at Hillside Cemetery, East Canaan, North Canaan, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Frederick Roberts and Hannah (Spellman) Roberts; married, September 4, 1867, to Lois Jane Briggs.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Image source: Hartford Courant, September 13, 1906
  Frank D. Sloat (1835-1922) — of New Haven, New Haven County, Conn.; Washington, D.C. Born in Fishkill, Dutchess County, N.Y., September 28, 1835. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; president, Victor Sewing Machine Company, 1873; Connecticut state comptroller, 1883-85. Member, Freemasons; Grand Army of the Republic. Died March 10, 1922 (age 86 years, 163 days). Interment at Union Valley Cemetery, Carmel, N.Y.
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Charles Leslie Upham (1839-1929) — also known as Charles L. Upham — of Meriden, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Townshend, Windham County, Vt., May 24, 1839. Colonel in the Union Army during the Civil War; one of the founders of the Ives, Upham & Rand department store in Meriden; mayor of Meriden, Conn., 1873-74. Member, Grand Army of the Republic; Freemasons. Died in Meriden, New Haven County, Conn., May 28, 1929 (age 90 years, 4 days). Interment at Walnut Grove Cemetery, Meriden, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of Rev. William Dennis Upham and Lucy Marie (Spink) Upham; married, November 22, 1863, to Emilie M. Clark; married, July 12, 1877, to Elizabeth Hall; first cousin once removed of Don Alonzo Joshua Upham; third cousin once removed of William Upham and Alonzo Sidney Upham; third cousin twice removed of Clarence Albert Upham; fourth cousin of Isaiah Blood, Calvin Hoadley Upham and William Henry Upham; fourth cousin once removed of Jabez Upham, George Baxter Upham, Nathaniel Upham, Samuel Finley Vinton, Charles Wentworth Upham and Frederic William Upham.
  Political families: Upham family of Massachusetts and New Hampshire; Upham family of Massachusetts (subsets of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial
  Charles Green Rich Vinal (b. 1840) — also known as Charles G. R. Vinal — of Middletown, Middlesex County, Conn. Born in Monroe, Waldo County, Maine, January 14, 1840. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; mayor of Middletown, Conn., 1894-95; member of Connecticut state senate, 1897-1900; secretary of state of Connecticut, 1901-05. Member, Freemasons; Grand Army of the Republic. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Married 1865 to M. Amelia Hotchkiss (daughter of Julius Hotchkiss).
  Political family: Hotchkiss family of Connecticut (subset of the Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  Ira R. Wildman (1850-1939) — of Danbury, Fairfield County, Conn. Born in Danbury, Fairfield County, Conn., February 3, 1850. Republican. Served in the Union Army during the Civil War; candidate for Connecticut state house of representatives from Danbury, 1910. Member, Grand Army of the Republic; Odd Fellows; Rotary. Died in Danbury, Fairfield County, Conn., January 31, 1939 (age 88 years, 362 days). Interment at Wooster Cemetery, Danbury, Conn.
  Relatives: Son of David Smith Wildman and Eunice (Ambler) Wildman; married 1878 to Emma Osborne Bailey; first cousin thrice removed of Zalmon Wildman and Nathaniel Hibbard Wildman; second cousin twice removed of Frederick Seymour Wildman and David DeForest Wildman; second cousin five times removed of Andrew Adams; third cousin once removed of George Winthrop Fairchild; third cousin thrice removed of Israel Coe; fourth cousin once removed of Charles Beers Hatch, Joseph Russell Hatch and Norris Hatch.
  Political families:Four Thousand Related Politicians).
  See also Find-A-Grave memorial

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