Treadwell, John, 1745-1823

John Treadwell, Connecticut's fourth governor, was born at Farmington, CT, on November 23, 1745. He graduated from Yale in 1767. In 1776 his townsmen elected him as their representative in the General Assembly, an office he held for the next seven years, when in 1783, he was elevated to the governor's council, where he continued until 1798. Treadwell also served in the Continental Congress from 1785 to 1786, and was one of the delegates to the convention at Hartford that ratified the Constitution of the United States in 1788. In 1789 he was elected judge of probate of the Farmington district and also a judge of the Supreme Court of Errors. He held these offices until 1809, and afterwards became a judge of the Court of Common Pleas for several years. He was elected lieutenant governor in 1798 and continued in this office until 1809 when he succeeded Jonathan Trumbull as governor, which office he held till 1811, when he retired from public life. He spent a large portion of his retirement in writing on religious subjects in a series of essays on theological subjects, which are preserved, but have not been published. He died at his home in Farmington on August 18, 1823.

American jurist and statesman-govenor of Connecticut.