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TRUMBULL, JONATHAN (1710-1785)

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

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Stuart, See also: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-See also:general of the See also:northern See also:department in 1775-1778 and as a military secretary of Washington in 1778-1783, and was a member of the See also:national See also:House of Representatives in 1789-1795, serving as Speaker in 1791-1793, and of the United States See also:Senate in 1795-1796; he was See also:lieutenant-governor of Connecticut in 1796-1798, and governor in 1798-1809. Another son, See also:JosEPH (1737-1778), was a member of the first See also:Continental See also:Congress (1774-1775), became See also:commissary-general of stores of the Continental See also:army in See also:July 1775 and commissary-general of purchases in See also:June 1777, resigned in August 1777, and from See also:November 1777 to See also:April 1778 was See also:commissioner for the See also:board of war. A See also: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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