Putnam patriot., 1919-08-15
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No Representative From Put nam Ever Served At Wash
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Governors From Windham County
 Are Few and Far Between

By Souvenir" William H. Taylor
 It's a long time between governors in Windham county, said l to myself, right out loud, too, when searching for data for the Centenary book l am now compiling for the state Now hstenl Windham county has had on- ly one governor since 1639, two hun dred and eighty years ago, and that was in 1842-44. That honored gen tleman was Hon. Chauncey F. Cleve- land of Hampton, who was also a rep resentative in congress in 1849-53. Having spent most of my days in pa triotic Putnam in good old Windham county this was rather sad newso to me, but I'm sorry to say more sad ness" came OCT me when l looked over the names of United States sen ators from Connecticut and found that there was not even a Hong time between" as there was no "between," Windham county being the only coun- ty in the state that has never had q oDilbu ADldltS Httldibis NISfi bllla "sad tale" could end here, but no, for ] found that Putnam, the town l love, is the only city in the Second Con gressional district, comprising Wind ham, New London, Middlesex and Holland counties, that had never had a representative in congress. Bye the=bye, the only state officer Putnam has had in these hundreds of years was the lamented Deacon James Man ming, who was comptroller in 1869, 1870, 1871 and 1873, and our pres ent popular and efficient state treas urer, Hon. G. Harold Gilpatric But why all this sad stuff, when about ev- eryone knows that Keep Smiling is one of my keep Your Memory Green" slogans. Please pardon me this time and I will now come down to plain facts. Windham county has had eleven representatives in con gress since 1879, as follows: Zeph- aniah Swift Windham. 1793-97; Cal win Goddard, Plainfeld, 1S01-05; Ebenezer Stoddard, Woodstock, l82l- 25; John Baldwin, Windham, 1925 29; EbeneZer Young, Killingly, 1S29- 35; Andrew T. Judson, Canterbury, 1S35-s7; George s. Catlin, Windham, 1S43-45; Ghauncey F. Cleveland, Hampton, 1s49-53; Sidney Dean, Thompson, 1855-59; Alfred A. Burn ham, Windham, l859-63; Charles A. Russell, Killingly, 1897-1902
 The county has had two chief jus tices: Eliphalet Dyer, Windham, 17S9-93; Lephaniah Swift, Windham, 1915.
 The county has had six speakers of the house of representatives of Con necticut the past 100 years: Eben- ezer Young, killingly, 1927 and '2S; Chauncey F. Cleveland, Hampton, 1885, '36 and TO; Alfred A. Burn ham. Windham. 1858 and 1863; Da- vid Gallup. Plainfeld. 1866; Edwin II. Bugbee, Killingly, 1871; John NJ. Hall of Windham, 1882.
 The state officers from the county since 1889 were;
 Governor-C F. Cleveland, Hampton, 1S42-44,
 I.ieutenant-G Governors - EbeneZer Stoddard, Woodstock, 1SS5-3S; Thos. Backus, Killingly. 1S49-50; William Field. Pomfret, 1s55-56; Alfred A. Burnham. Windham, 1S57-5S; David Gallup, Plainfield. 1s79-Sl
 Secretaries of State Daniel P. Ty- Ter, Pomfret. ISAAC; Marvin II. Sanger. Canterbury, 1S7S-77; Chas. F. Searls, Thompson, 1Ssl-s3; Chas, A. Russell Killingly, 1sS5-s7; Huber Clark. Windham, 1s99-l90l.
 Treasurers-Frederic P. Coe, Xiii hngly, 1S56-57; Ezra Dean, Wood stock. 1S61-62; Henry G. Taintor, of Hampton, 1S66-67; Edwin S Moseley' Hampton, ls67-69; Edwin A. Buck, Windham. lS77-79; Marvin II. San ger, Canterbury, ls93-95; Charles w Grosvenor. Pomfret, lS97-99; C, Har- old Gilpatric, Putnam, 1919 to las long as he wants the office. hopel
 Comptrollers William Field, Pom fret, Is36-Ss; Mason Cleveland, Hampton, ls46-47; James w Man ming. Putnam, 1869, TO, I'll and '7S; Daniel P. Dunn, Windham' l9lS-l5.
 Attorney Generals - William A King. Windham, l90S-07; George F.
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 have had the honor to count many of the above officers as person. al friends, but will not take any more of your valuable space to tell many interesting things about them. Please pardon me for using the "I's" in this article. as l had to use 'em so the readers could .'see' things more clearly.