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LEADERSHIP and LEGACY in CONNECTICUT. Thomas Hooker: Hartford John Davenport: New Haven John Winthrop, Jr.: Saybrooke THE FOUNDERS.

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1 LEADERSHIP and LEGACY in CONNECTICUT

2 Thomas Hooker: Hartford John Davenport: New Haven John Winthrop, Jr.: Saybrooke THE FOUNDERS

3 Revolutionary Leadership Jonathan Trumbull: Governor Roger Sherman: Signer Benedict Arnold: General and Traitor

4 Nineteenh Century Oliver Wolcott, Jr. : Religious Liberty John Brown: Abolitionist William Buckingham: Civil War Governor Gideon Welles: Lincoln’s Secretary of the Navy

5 Twentieth Century Wilbur Cross: Yale Professor and Governor Abraham Ribicoff: Governor and Senator Ella Grasso: Representative and Governor

6 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

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

8 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

9 Social Reformers


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