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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Connecticut / USJonathan TRUMBULL, Jr.
(1740-1809)
Senate Years of Service:
1795-1796Party: FederalistTRUMBULL, Jonathan, Jr.,
(brother of Joseph Trumbull), a Representative and a Senator from
Connecticut; born in Lebanon, Conn., March 26, 1740; graduated from
Harvard College in 1759; member, State legislature 1774-1775,
1779-1780, 1788, and served as speaker of the house in 1788; served
in the Continental Army as a paymaster; comptroller of the treasury
1778-1779; appointed secretary and aide-de-camp to General George
Washington in 1781; elected to the First, Second, and Third
Congresses (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1795); did not seek reelection,
having become a candidate for Senator; Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Second Congress; elected to the United States
Senate and served from March 4, 1795, to June 10, 1796, when he
resigned; lieutenant governor of Connecticut from 1796 until the
death of the Governor in December 1797, when he became the
Governor; was reelected for eleven consecutive terms, and served
from 1797 until his death in Lebanon, Conn., August 7, 1809;
interment in the East Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Ifkovic, John. Connecticut’s Nationalist
Revolutionary: Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. Hartford: American
Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Connecticut, 1977.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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