politician
Edward Hopkins.
English colonist, Governor of the Connecticut Colony (1600-1657)
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About Edward Hopkins
Edward Hopkins was an English colonist and politician and 2nd Governor of the Connecticut Colony. Active on both sides of the Atlantic, he was a founder of the New Haven and Connecticut colonies, serving seven one-year terms as Governor of Connecticut. He returned to England in the 1650s, where he was politically active in the administration of Oliver Cromwell as a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and member of Parliament. He remained in England despite being elected Governor of Connecticut in 1655, and died in London in 1657.
Everything about Edward Hopkins →- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- colonial governor of Connecticut, Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the Second Protectorate Parliament, colonial governor of Connecticut
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1600
- Died
- March 1657