Jonathan Trumbull.
Revolutionary-era Governor of the Colony and State of Connecticut
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About Jonathan Trumbull
Jonathan Trumbull Sr. was an American politician who served as the governor of Connecticut during the American Revolution. Trumbull and Nicholas Cooke of Rhode Island were the only men to serve as governor of both a British colony and a U.S. state, and he was the only governor to take up the Patriot cause at the start of the Revolutionary War. Trumbull College at Yale University, the town of Trumbull, Connecticut, Trumbull County, Ohio, and Jonathan the Husky the UConn mascot are all named for him. Trumbull was the father of John Trumbull, the noted artist, and Jonathan Trumbull Jr., Governor of Connecticut and Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
Everything about Jonathan Trumbull →- Occupation
- jurist, lawyer
- Position held
- Governor of Connecticut, colonial governor of Connecticut
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- October 12, 1710
- Died
- August 17, 1785