Hosmer, Titus, 1736-1780
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Hosmer, Titus, 1736-1780
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Hosmer
Forename :
Titus
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1736-1780
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Titus Hosmer (1736 – August 4, 1780) was an American Founding Father and lawyer from Middletown, Connecticut. He was a delegate for Connecticut to the Continental Congress in 1778, where he signed the Articles of Confederation.
Titus was born in West Hartford, Connecticut, attended Yale and graduated in 1757. He read for the law, was admitted to the bar, and began a practice in Middletown, Connecticut. Hosmer was elected to the Connecticut State Assembly annually from 1773 to 1778 and served as their speaker in 1777. In May 1778, he became a member of the State Senate and remained in that office until he died. Later in 1778, the joint state legislature sent him as one of their delegates to the Second Continental Congress. He was subsequently elected by the Continental Congress on January 22, 1780, to serve as a federal judge on the Court of Appeals in Cases of Capture.
Titus died at Middletown on August 4, 1780, of undisclosed causes, and is buried in the Mortimer Cemetery there.
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https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q371113
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n2021057584/
https://www.worldcat.org/identities/np-hosmer,%20titue$1736%201780/
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https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2021057584.html
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Delegates, U.S. Continental Congress
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New Haven
CT, US
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West Hartford
CT, US
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Middletown
CT, US
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