Jonathan Trumbull

Jonathan Trumbull Sr. was an American politician and statesman who served as Governor of Connecticut during the American Revolution. Trumbull and Nicholas Cooke of Rhode Island were the only men to serve as governor of both a British colony and an American state, and he was the only governor to take up the Patriot cause at the start of the Revolutionary War. Trumbull College at Yale University, the town of Trumbull, Connecticut, Trumbull County, Ohio, and Jonathan the Husky are all named for him.

12 October 1710

Born on the same birth day (12 October): Aleister Crowley • Anna Ohmiya • Bernardo Pisano • Chendo • Dietrich von Hildebrand • Edith Stein • Elisabeth of Romania • Eliška Misáková • John Murray (playwright) • Josephine Hutchinson • Marion Jones • Michelle Carter (athlete) • Paul Hawkins (racing driver) • Pedro I of Brazil • Ralph Vaughan Williams • Robert Coles (psychiatrist) • Sun Tiantian • Trevor Chappell • William J. Hardee

Born in the same month (October 1710): András Hadik