lieutenant death_date successor death_place birth_place children party office birth_date term_start spouse signature image article_title term_end name alma_mater
matthew griswold 17 august 1785 matthew griswold lebanon , connecticut lebanon , connecticut joseph trumbull david trumbull john trumbull trumbull jonathan trumbull , jr. faith trumbull mary none governor of the connecticut colony governor of connecticut october 12 , 1710 1769 1776 faith robinson jonathan trumbull signature.svg jonathan trumbull engraving circa 1855.jpg jonathan trumbull
 1776 1784 jonathan trumbull , sr. . harvard university
jonathan trumbull

jonathan trumbull , sr. -lrb- october 12 , 1710august 17 , 1785 -rrb- -lrb- the original spelling , `` trumble '' , was changed for an unknown reason -rrb- was one of the few americans who served as governor in both a pre-revolutionary colony and a post-revolutionary state .
he was the only colonial governor at the start of the revolution to take up the rebel cause .
trumbull college at yale , the town of trumbull , connecticut and trumbull county , ohio , once part of the connecticut western reserve , are named after him .
the mascot of the university of connecticut is also named `` jonathan '' in his honor .
