List of Famous people born in Connecticut, United States of America

John Rand

First Name John
Last Name Rand
Born on November 19, 1871
Died on January 25, 1940 (aged 68)

John Rand was an American actor who started his film career in the 1910s, and most notably supported Charles Chaplin in over 20 of his subjects.

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Frank Hinman Pierpont

First Name Frank
Last Name Pierpont
Born on January 1, 1860
Died on January 1, 1937 (aged 77)

Frank Hinman Pierpont was an American engineer and typeface designer. He worked primarily in England for the Monotype Corporation of Britain.

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Thomas S. Savage

First Name Thomas
Last Name Savage
Born on June 7, 1804
Died on December 27, 1880 (aged 76)

Thomas Staughton Savage was an American Protestant clergyman, missionary, physician and naturalist.

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Lafayette S. Foster

First Name Lafayette
Last Name Foster
Born on November 22, 1806
Died on September 19, 1880 (aged 73)

Lafayette Sabine Foster was a nineteenth-century American politician and lawyer from Connecticut. He served in the United States Senate from 1855 to 1867 and was a judge on the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1870 to 1876.

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Hal K. Dawson

First Name Hal
Born on October 17, 1896
Died on February 17, 1987 (aged 90)

Hal K. Dawson was an American actor.

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Elisha M. Pease

First Name Elisha
Born on January 3, 1812
Died on August 26, 1883 (aged 71)

Elisha Marshall Pease was a Texas politician. He served as the fifth and 13th governor of Texas.

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Joseph Farnham

First Name Joseph
Last Name Farnham
Born on December 2, 1884
Died on June 2, 1931 (aged 46)

Joseph White Farnham was an American playwright, film writer, and film editor of the silent movie era in the early 1930s. He was also a founding member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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Jonathan O. Moseley

First Name Jonathan
Last Name Moseley
Born on April 9, 1762
Died on September 9, 1838 (aged 76)

Jonathan Ogden Moseley was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Connecticut. He was born in East Haddam, Connecticut, the only child of Thomas Moseley, a physician, and Phebe Ogden. He graduated from Yale College in 1780, studied law, was admitted to the bar and began practice in East Haddam.

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John Hubbard Tweedy

First Name John
Last Name Tweedy
Born on November 9, 1814
Died on November 12, 1891 (aged 77)

John Hubbard Tweedy was a delegate to the United States Congress from Wisconsin Territory from March 1847 to May 1848 being elected from the Whig Party. He was also the Whig Party nominee in first Wisconsin gubernatorial election, where he lost to Nelson Dewey.

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Harry Porter

First Name Harry
Last Name Porter
Born on August 31, 1882
Died on June 27, 1965 (aged 82)
Height 189 cm | 6'2

Harry Franklin Porter was a high jumper from the United States of America. He was a member of the Irish American Athletic Club, and won gold in the High Jump in the 1908 Summer Olympics at a mark of 6'3". He graduated from Cornell University.

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