Government

Assembly Book and Connecticut Public Register. Biographical Sketches [with] Por­traits of the Members of the General Assembly. Hartford: Evening Post Association, 1884-1899. Published annually during this period.

Biographical Directory of the Governors of the U.S., 1789-1978. Connecticut governors are in vol. 1. Chronologically arranged biographies, "written by an expert," with bibliographical references.

Cooney, T .J. The Signers and Framers from Connecticut. Hartford, 1952.

Howe, A. F. Connecticut's Labor Mayors. New York, 1903.

Norton, Frederick Calvin. Governors of Connecticut. Hartford: The Connecticut Magazine Company, 1905. Fifty-nine biographies. Sketches of the early gover­nors are less full than the others.

Perry, Charles Edward, ed. Founders and Leaders a/Connecticut, 1633-1783. Bos­ton: D. C. Heath, 1934. About fifty biographies written by different authors. The audience is "teachers of history, English, and civics in public schools."

Taylor, William Harrison. Taylor's Legislative History and Souvenir of Connecticut, 1901-1912. Portraits and Sketches of State Officials, Senators, Representatives, etc. There is a similar volume for 1897-1900, called Taylor's Souvenir of the Capitol. Putnam, Conn.: W. H. Taylor, 1847-1912.

 

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