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Born November 20, 1726 • Windsor • Connecticut
Died December 1, 1797 (aged 71) • Litchfield • Connecticut
Title / Office governor (1796-1797), Connecticut
Notable Family Members son Oliver Wolcott, Jr.
Roger Sherman, oil on canvas by Ralph Earl, c. 1775; in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut. 164.1 × 126 cm.
Roger Sherman
American politician
Huntington, Samuel
Samuel Huntington
American politician
Stephen Hopkins
governor of Rhode Island
Edward Rutledge
American politician
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
American author, scientist, and statesman
Gilbert Stuart: portrait of John Adams
John Adams
president of United States
Samuel Adams
Samuel Adams
American politician
Elbridge Gerry
Elbridge Gerry
vice president of United States
Francis Hopkinson
American lawyer, musician, and patriot
Wythe, George
George Wythe
American jurist
Robert R. Livingston
United States statesman
James Wilson
James Wilson
United States statesman
Samuel Chase
Samuel Chase
United States jurist
Josiah Bartlett
United States statesman
John Hancock
John Hancock
United States statesman
Robert Morris, engraving, late 19th or early 20th century.
Robert Morris
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Witherspoon, John
John Witherspoon
American clergyman
Richard Henry Lee
Richard Henry Lee
United States statesman
Charles Carroll.
Charles Carroll
United States statesman
Arthur Middleton, detail of an engraving by J.B. Longacre after a portrait by B. West
Arthur Middleton
United States statesman