LEADERSHIP and LEGACY

in

CONNECTICUT

Thomas Hooker: Hartford

John Davenport: New Haven

John Winthrop, Jr.: Saybrooke

THE FOUNDERS

Revolutionary LeadershipJonathan Trumbull: Governor

Roger Sherman: Signer

Benedict Arnold: General and Traitor

Nineteenh CenturyOliver Wolcott, Jr. : Religious Liberty

John Brown: Abolitionist

William Buckingham: Civil War Governor

Gideon Welles: Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy

Twentieth Century Wilbur Cross: Yale Professor and Governor

Abraham Ribicoff: Governor and Senator

Ella Grasso: Representative and Governor

Inventors, Businessmen, and Creators Eli Whitney: Cotton Gin and Interchangeable parts Charles Goodyear: Vulcanized Rubber Samuel Colt: Colt Revolvers Frederick Law Olmsted: Landscape Architect J.P. Morgan: Financier Igor Sikorsky: Helicopter

Social Reformers Lyman Beecher: Minister Isabella Beecher Hooker: Suffragist Catharine Beecher: Educator Harriet Beecher Stowe: Author Henry Ward Beecher: Minister and Abolitionist

Social Reformers Prudence Crandall: Educator Henry Barnard: Educator Samuel May: Minister and Abolitionist James Mars: Abolitionist Charles Loring Brace: “Orphan trains” project Ralph Nader: Consumer Advocate

Social Reformers