Dennis A. Blakeslee

Dennis Albert Blakeslee ( born March 11, 1856 in New Haven, Connecticut, † April 5, 1933 ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1913 he was Deputy Governor of the State of Connecticut.

Career

Dennis Blakeslee attended the common schools and worked in his father's construction company, which later escalated on the railway. Later he also went into the financial industry and was president of a bank. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. In the years 1880 and 1881 he was a member of the city council of New Haven; 1884 to 1890 he was fire commissioner of the city. Between 1907 and 1910 he sat in the Senate from Connecticut. In June 1908 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago in part, on William Howard Taft was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In 1910, Blakeslee was elected to the side of Simeon Eben Baldwin for Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut. This post he held between 1911 and 1913. Yet he was Deputy Governor and Chairman of the State Senate. Since 1878, he was married to Lizzie Finette Law, with whom he had six children. He died on April 5, 1933 in his hometown of New Haven.