List of Governors of Connecticut facts for kids
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Style | His Excellency |
Residence | Connecticut Governor's Residence |
Term length | Four years |
Inaugural holder | Jonathan Trumbull |
Deputy | Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut |
Salary | $150,000 (2013) |
Website | www.ct.gov/governor |
The Governor of Connecticut is the elected head of the executive branch of Connecticut's state government, and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces. The governor has a duty to enforce state laws, and the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Connecticut General Assembly and to convene the legislature. Unusual among U.S. governors, the Governor of Connecticut has no power to pardon. The Governor of Connecticut is automatically a member of the state's Bonding Commission. He is an ex-officio member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Connecticut and Yale University.
There have been 68 post-Revolution governors of the state, serving 72 distinct spans in office. The longest terms in office were in the state's early years, when four governors were elected to nine or more one-year terms. The longest was that of the first governor, Jonathan Trumbull, who served over 14 years, but 7 of those as colonial governor; the longest-serving state governor — with no other position included in the term — was his son, Jonathan Trumbull Jr., who served over 11 years. The shortest term was that of Hiram Bingham III, who served only one day before resigning to take an elected seat in the U.S. Senate. Lowell P. Weicker Jr., is noted for a rare third party win in American politics, having been elected to a term in 1990 representing A Connecticut Party.
The current governor is Ned Lamont, a Democrat who took office on January 9, 2019.
Governors
Connecticut was one of the original Thirteen Colonies and was admitted as a state on January 9, 1788. Before it declared its independence, Connecticut was a colony of the Kingdom of Great Britain.
Connecticut did not create a state constitution for itself until several decades after it became a state; until 1818, the state operated under the provisions of its colonial charter. The charter called for the election of a governor every year, but not more than once every two years, with the term commencing on the second Thursday in May.
The current Constitution of Connecticut, ratified in 1965, calls for a four-year term for the governor, commencing on the Wednesday after the first Monday in the January following an election. The previous constitution of 1818 originally had only a one-year term for governor; this was increased to two years in 1875, and four years in 1948. The 1875 amendment also set the start date of the term to its current date; before then, it was the first Wednesday in the May following an election. The constitution provides for the election of a lieutenant governor for the same term as the governor. The two offices are elected on the same ticket; this provision was added in 1962. In the event of a vacancy in the office of governor, the lieutenant governor becomes governor. Before the adoption of the 1965 constitution, the lieutenant governor only acted as governor. There is no limit of any kind on the number of terms one may serve.
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Jonathan Trumbull | October 10, 1776 – May 13, 1784 (not candidate for election) |
No party | 1776 | Matthew Griswold | ||
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17 | Matthew Griswold | May 13, 1784 – May 11, 1786 (lost election) |
Federalist | 1784 | Samuel Huntington | |||
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Samuel Huntington | May 11, 1786 – January 5, 1796 (died in office) |
Federalist | 1786 | Oliver Wolcott | ||
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Oliver Wolcott | January 5, 1796 – December 1, 1797 (died in office) |
Federalist | Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor |
Acting as Governor | ||
1796 | Jonathan Trumbull Jr. | |||||||
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Jonathan Trumbull Jr. | December 1, 1797 – August 7, 1809 (died in office) |
Federalist | Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor |
Acting as Governor | ||
1798 | John Treadwell | |||||||
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John Treadwell | August 7, 1809 – May 9, 1811 (lost election) |
Federalist | Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor |
Acting as Governor | ||
1810 | Roger Griswold | |||||||
22 | Roger Griswold | May 9, 1811 – October 25, 1812 (died in office) |
Federalist | 1811 | John Cotton Smith | |||
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John Cotton Smith | October 25, 1812 – May 8, 1817 (lost election) |
Federalist | Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor |
Acting as Governor | ||
1813 | Chauncey Goodrich (died August 18, 1815) |
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1816 | Jonathan Ingersoll (died January 12, 1823) |
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Oliver Wolcott Jr. | May 8, 1817 – May 2, 1827 (lost election) |
Toleration Republican |
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1823 | David Plant | |||||||
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Gideon Tomlinson | May 2, 1827 – March 2, 1831 (resigned) |
Democratic- Republican |
1827 | John Samuel Peters | ||
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John Samuel Peters | March 2, 1831 – May 1, 1833 (lost election) |
National Republican |
Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor |
Acting as Governor | ||
1831 | Thaddeus Betts | |||||||
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Henry W. Edwards | May 1, 1833 – May 7, 1834 (lost election) |
Democratic | 1833 | Ebenezer Stoddard | ||
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Samuel A. Foot | May 7, 1834 – May 6, 1835 (lost election) |
Whig | 1834 | Thaddeus Betts | ||
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Henry W. Edwards | May 6, 1835 – May 2, 1838 (not candidate for election) |
Democratic | 1835 | Ebenezer Stoddard | ||
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William W. Ellsworth | May 2, 1838 – May 4, 1842 (lost election) |
Whig | 1838 | Charles Hawley | ||
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Chauncey Fitch Cleveland | May 4, 1842 – May 1, 1844 (lost election) |
Democratic | 1842 | William S. Holabird | ||
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Roger Sherman Baldwin | May 1, 1844 – May 6, 1846 (not candidate for election) |
Whig | 1844 | Reuben Booth | ||
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Isaac Toucey | May 6, 1846 – May 5, 1847 (not candidate for election) |
Democratic | 1846 | Noyes Billings | ||
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Clark Bissell | May 5, 1847 – May 2, 1849 (not candidate for election) |
Whig | 1847 | Charles J. McCurdy | ||
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Joseph Trumbull | May 2, 1849 – May 4, 1850 (not candidate for election) |
Whig | 1849 | Thomas Backus | ||
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Thomas H. Seymour | May 4, 1850 – October 13, 1853 (resigned) |
Democratic | 1850 | Charles H. Pond | ||
1851 | Green Kendrick | |||||||
1852 | Charles H. Pond | |||||||
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Charles H. Pond | October 13, 1853 – May 3, 1854 (not candidate for election) |
Democratic | Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor |
Acting as Governor | ||
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Henry Dutton | May 3, 1854 – May 2, 1855 (lost election) |
Whig | 1854 | Alexander H. Holley | ||
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William T. Minor | May 2, 1855 – May 6, 1857 (not candidate for election) |
American | 1855 | William Field | ||
1856 | Albert Day | |||||||
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Alexander H. Holley | May 6, 1857 – May 5, 1858 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1857 | Alfred A. Burnham | ||
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William Alfred Buckingham | May 5, 1858 – May 2, 1866 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1858 | Julius Catlin | ||
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1861 | Benjamin Douglas | |||||||
1862 | Roger Averill | |||||||
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Joseph Roswell Hawley | May 2, 1866 – May 1, 1867 (lost election) |
Republican | 1866 | Oliver Winchester | ||
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James E. English | May 1, 1867 – May 5, 1869 (lost election) |
Democratic | 1867 | Ephraim H. Hyde | ||
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Marshall Jewell | May 5, 1869 – May 4, 1870 (lost election) |
Republican | 1869 | Francis Wayland III | ||
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James E. English | May 4, 1870 – May 16, 1871 (lost election) |
Democratic | 1870 | Julius Hotchkiss | ||
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Marshall Jewell | May 16, 1871 – May 7, 1873 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1871 | Morris Tyler | ||
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Charles Roberts Ingersoll | May 7, 1873 – January 3, 1877 (not candidate for election) |
Democratic | 1873 | George G. Sill | ||
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Richard D. Hubbard | January 3, 1877 – January 9, 1879 (lost election) |
Democratic | 1876 | Francis Loomis | ||
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Charles B. Andrews | January 9, 1879 – January 5, 1881 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1878 | David Gallup | ||
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Hobart B. Bigelow | January 5, 1881 – January 3, 1883 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1880 | William H. Bulkeley | ||
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Thomas M. Waller | January 3, 1883 – January 8, 1885 (lost election) |
Democratic | 1882 | George G. Sumner | ||
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Henry Baldwin Harrison | January 8, 1885 – January 7, 1887 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1884 | Lorrin A. Cooke | ||
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Phineas C. Lounsbury | January 7, 1887 – January 10, 1889 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1886 | James L. Howard | ||
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Morgan Bulkeley | January 10, 1889 – January 4, 1893 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1888 | Samuel E. Merwin | ||
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Luzon B. Morris | January 4, 1893 – January 9, 1895 (not candidate for election) |
Democratic | 1892 | Ernest Cady | ||
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Owen Vincent Coffin | January 9, 1895 – January 6, 1897 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1894 | Lorrin A. Cooke | ||
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Lorrin A. Cooke | January 6, 1897 – January 4, 1899 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1896 | James D. Dewell | ||
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George E. Lounsbury | January 4, 1899 – January 9, 1901 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1898 | Lyman A. Mills | ||
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George P. McLean | January 9, 1901 – January 7, 1903 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1900 | Edwin O. Keeler | ||
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Abiram Chamberlain | January 7, 1903 – January 4, 1905 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1902 | Henry Roberts | ||
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Henry Roberts | January 4, 1905 – January 9, 1907 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1904 | Rollin S. Woodruff | ||
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Rollin S. Woodruff | January 9, 1907 – January 6, 1909 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1906 | Everett J. Lake | ||
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George L. Lilley | January 6, 1909 – April 21, 1909 (died in office) |
Republican | 1908 | Frank B. Weeks | ||
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Frank B. Weeks | April 21, 1909 – January 4, 1911 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor |
Acting as Governor | ||
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Simeon Eben Baldwin | January 4, 1911 – January 6, 1915 (not candidate for election) |
Democratic | 1910 | Dennis A. Blakeslee | ||
1912 | Lyman T. Tingier | |||||||
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Marcus H. Holcomb | January 6, 1915 – January 5, 1921 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1914 | Clifford B. Wilson | ||
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Everett J. Lake | January 5, 1921 – January 3, 1923 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1920 | Charles A. Templeton | ||
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Charles A. Templeton | January 3, 1923 – January 7, 1925 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1922 | Hiram Bingham III | ||
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Hiram Bingham III | January 7, 1925 – January 8, 1925 (resigned) |
Republican | 1924 | John H. Trumbull | ||
70 | John H. Trumbull | January 8, 1925 – January 7, 1931 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor |
Acting as Governor | |||
1926 | J. Edwin Brainard | |||||||
1928 | Ernest E. Rogers | |||||||
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Wilbur Lucius Cross | January 7, 1931 – January 4, 1939 (lost election) |
Democratic | 1930 | Samuel R. Spencer | ||
1932 | Roy C. Wilcox | |||||||
1934 | T. Frank Hayes | |||||||
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Raymond E. Baldwin | January 4, 1939 – January 8, 1941 (lost election) |
Republican | 1938 | James L. McConaughy | ||
73 | Robert A. Hurley | January 8, 1941 – January 6, 1943 (lost election) |
Democratic | 1940 | Odell Shepard | |||
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Raymond E. Baldwin | January 6, 1943 – December 27, 1946 (resigned) |
Republican | 1942 | William L. Hadden | ||
1944 | Charles Wilbert Snow | |||||||
75 | Charles Wilbert Snow | December 27, 1946 – January 8, 1947 (successor took office) |
Democratic | Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor |
Acting as Governor | |||
76 | James L. McConaughy | January 8, 1947 – March 7, 1948 (died in office) |
Republican | 1946 | James C. Shannon | |||
77 | James C. Shannon | March 7, 1948 – January 5, 1949 (lost election) |
Republican | Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor |
Acting as Governor | |||
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Chester Bowles | January 5, 1949 – January 3, 1951 (lost election) |
Democratic | 1948 | William T. Carroll | ||
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John Davis Lodge | January 3, 1951 – January 5, 1955 (lost election) |
Republican | 1950 | Edward N. Allen | ||
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Abraham Ribicoff | January 5, 1955 – January 21, 1961 (resigned) |
Democratic | 1954 | Charles W. Jewett | ||
1958 | John N. Dempsey | |||||||
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John N. Dempsey | January 21, 1961 – January 6, 1971 (not candidate for election) |
Democratic | Lieutenant Governor acting as Governor |
Acting as Governor | ||
1962 | Samuel J. Tedesco (resigned January 15, 1966) |
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Fred J. Doocy | ||||||||
1966 | Attilio R. Frassinelli | |||||||
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Thomas Meskill | January 6, 1971 – January 8, 1975 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | 1970 | T. Clark Hull (resigned June 1, 1973) |
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Peter L. Cashman | ||||||||
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Ella Grasso | January 8, 1975 – December 31, 1980 (resigned) |
Democratic | 1974 | Robert K. Killian | ||
1978 | William A. O'Neill | |||||||
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William A. O'Neill | December 31, 1980 – January 9, 1991 (not candidate for election) |
Democratic | Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor |
Joseph J. Fauliso | ||
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Lowell Weicker | January 9, 1991 – January 4, 1995 (not candidate for election) |
A Connecticut Party | 1990 | Eunice Groark | ||
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John G. Rowland | January 4, 1995 – July 1, 2004 (resigned) |
Republican | 1994 | Jodi Rell | ||
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Jodi Rell | July 1, 2004 – January 5, 2011 (not candidate for election) |
Republican | Succeeded from Lieutenant Governor |
Kevin Sullivan | ||
2006 | Michael Fedele | |||||||
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Dannel Malloy | January 5, 2011 – January 9, 2019 (not candidate for election) |
Democratic | 2010 | Nancy Wyman | ||
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Ned Lamont | January 9, 2019 – present |
Democratic | 2018 | Susan Bysiewicz |