Samuel Austin Talcott (December 31, 1789 Hartford, Connecticut – March 19, 1836 New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician.
5-524: He was the son of Samuel Talcott (1740-1798, grandson of Joseph Talcott , Colonial Governor of Connecticut ) and Abigail Ledyard Talcott. On May 28, 1810, he married Rachel Skinner; their son was John Ledyard Talcott (b. 1812), a justice of the New York Supreme Court . He graduated from Williams College in 1809, and he practiced law at New Hartford, New York . There he married, in 1818, his second wife, Mary Eliza Stanley (1800-1848), and their son
10-719: Was Thomas Grosvenor Talcott (1819-1870). He was a leading member of the Albany Regency and was New York State Attorney General from February 12, 1821 to January 27, 1829, when he was forced to resign "due to irregular habits", a then-used euphemism for what is now called a " drinking problem ". Afterward, he practiced law in New York City . He is mentioned briefly as a character in The Witch of Blackbird Pond , written by Elizabeth George Speare in 1958. Joseph Talcott Joseph Talcott (November 16, 1669 – October 11, 1741)
15-520: Was appointed an assistant (member of the governor's council) in 1711. He held a number of city and state offices; justice of the peace in 1705, and beginning in 1710, he was a major in the First Regiment of the Colony of Connecticut. His position of major continued to 1723. He was a member of the committee to lay out the town of Coventry in 1711. He owned property in several Connecticut towns. In May 1714, he
20-619: Was appointed as a judge of the Hartford County Court and he became Judge of the Superior Court of Hartford in May 1721. In 1723, Talcott was elected Deputy Governor upon the death of Nathan Gold; then following the sudden death of Gurdon Saltonstall , he was made Governor. He was the first Connecticut Governor to be born in the state. He was re-elected annually until his death, for a total of seventeen years and five months in office. This time
25-527: Was the 26th governor of the Connecticut Colony from 1724 until his death in 1741. Talcott was born in Hartford, Connecticut , the son of Lieutenant-Colonel John and Helena Wakeman Talcott. He married Abigail Clark in 1693 and the couple had three sons. Abigail died in 1704. His second wife was Eunice Howell with whom he had five more children. Descended from one of Connecticut's founding settlers, Talcott
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