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Ebenezer Baldwin (1745-1776) graduated from Yale University in 1763, served as a tutor from 1767-1770, and held the position of minister in the First Congregational Church in Danbury, Connecticut from 1770-1776. He served as a volunteer chaplain for the Danbury militia, a group which participated in the defense of New York City during the American Revolution. He contracted a fever at that time, and died in 1776.

Simeon Baldwin (1761-1851) graduated from Yale University in 1781. He served as a tutor from 1783-1786, and began his New Haven law practice in 1787. He served as City Clerk (1789-1800), Clerk of the District and Circuit Courts of the United States for the District of Connecticut (1790-1803), United States Congressman (1803-1805), Clerk of the District Courts (re-appointment) (1805-1806), Associate Judge of the Superior Court (1806-1817), Commissioner of the Farmington Canal (1820-1830), and Mayor of New Haven (1826).

Roger Sherman Baldwin (1793-1863) graduated from Yale University in 1811, and began his law practice in New Haven in 1814. He served in New Haven and Connecticut politics (1826-1838), established a national reputation for his anti-slavery defense of slaves in the "Amistad" case (1839-1840), was elected governor of Connecticut (1844-1845), accepted the appointment and subsequent election to the U.S. Senate (1847-1851), and served as a delegate to the National Peace Convention (1861).

Simeon Eben Baldwin (1840-1927) graduated from Yale University in 1861, became a member of the bar in 1863, and was founder of the American Bar Association in 1878 and it's president in 1890. He served as the Association's Director of the Bureau of Comparative Law (1907-1919), as an Associate Justice and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Connecticut, as the state's governor (1910-1914), and produced numerous articles and books.

Henry De Forest Baldwin (1862-1947) graduated from Yale University in 1885 and was admitted to the bar in 1887. He practiced law in New York City (1888-1947), and was active in municipal politics and affairs and served on several commissions, boards and associations.

From the description of Baldwin family papers, 1595-1947 (inclusive). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122513324

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