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Governor Jonathan Trumbull
b.12 Oct 1710 Lebanon, New London, Connecticut
d.17 Aug 1785 Lebanon, New London, Connecticut
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m. 31 Aug 1704
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m. 9 Dec 1735
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Jonathan Trumbull Sr. (October 12, 1710August 17, 1785) was an American politician and statesman who served as 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 an American 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 (originally part of the Connecticut Western Reserve), and Jonathan the Husky are all named for him.
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