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JONATHAN TRUMBULL (1710-1785)

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 325 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JONATHAN TRUMBULL (1710-1785)  ,
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American
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political leader, was born at Lebanon,
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Connecticut, on the 12th of
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October 1710 . He graduated at Harvard in 1727, and began the study of
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theology, but in 1731 engaged in business with his
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father . He next studied law, was elected to the Assembly in 1773, and held public office almost continuously afterward . He served for seven years in the Assembly, being
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Speaker for three years, for seventeen years as county judge of Windham county, for twenty-two years (after 1740) as governor's assistant, for two years as deputy-governor (1767-1769), and for three years (1766-1769) as chief justice of the colony . In 1769 he was elected governor and continued in office until his voluntary retirement in 1784 . During the War of Independence he was a valued counsellor of Washington . The story that the
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term "
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Brother Jonathan," a
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sobriquet for the
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United States, originated in Washington's familiar form of addressing him seems to be without any foundation . After the war Trumbull was a strong Federalist . He died in Lebanon on the 17th of August 1785 His public papers have been printed in the Massachusetts
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Historical Society's Collections, 5th series, vols. ix.-x . (Boston, 1885-1888), and 7th series, vols. ii.-iii . (1902) . See I.W .

Stuart,
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Life of Jonathan Trumbull, sen . (Boston, 1859) . His son JONATHAN (1740-1809) graduated at Harvard in 1759, served in the War of Independence as paymaster-general of the
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northern department in 1775-1778 and as a military secretary of Washington in 1778-1783, and was a member of the
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national House of Representatives in 1789-1795, serving as Speaker in 1791-1793, and of the United States Senate in 1795-1796; he was
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lieutenant-governor of Connecticut in 1796-1798, and governor in 1798-1809 . Another son, JosEPH (1737-1778), was a member of the first
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Continental Congress (1774-1775), became commissary-general of stores of the Continental army in
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July 1775 and commissary-general of purchases in
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June 1777, resigned in August 1777, and from November 1777 to
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April 1778 was
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commissioner for the board of war . A grandson of the first Jonathan, JOSEPH (1782-1861), was a Whig representative in Congress in 1834-1835 and in 1839-1843, and was governor of Connecticut in 1849-1850 .

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