Edward Hopkins

Edward Hopkins (* 1600 in Shropshire, England, † 1657) was an American settler, and several times the Governor of the Colony of Connecticut.

Career

Edward Hopkins decided to emigrate to America, where he arrived in the New Haven Colony in 1637. Two months later, he moved to Hartford, Connecticut, the first proprietary colony (English Proprietary Colony ). 1639, he worked as one of several employees of the General Court (now the Connecticut General Assembly), the State Parliament of today the U.S. state of Connecticut. Then, Hopkins was selected in 1640 for the first time in the office of the Governor of the Colony of Connecticut. He held the office 1640-1655 and again. Since at that time a man could only perform one term as governor and a second consecutive was forbidden to Hopkins and John Haynes changed (first Governor of the Colony of Connecticut, elected in 1639 ) ever again ( with a single exception, when George Wyllys a tenure, the office held ). Everyone worked as a Deputy Governor of the others if not held the office itself.

Hopkins survived an assassination attempt in 1646, which had been committed by a Native American. The reason for this attack was that the Colony of Connecticut, who belonged to a part of the New England Confederation (or United Colonies of New England ), and in protecting the chief of a rival tribe. Hophins made ​​through his work as governor a lot of money, which he managed with a variety of shops about today's Connecticut addition.

Hopkins often returned during his shift change as governor returned to England. He was a Commissioner of the Royal Navy (later Commissioner of the Admiralty ), supervised the edition of the new laws of the New Haven Colony and also served in the English Parliament.

Hopkins was in 1655 elected to his last term in office, although he still resided in England, what must be viewed as an attempt of the inhabitants of the Colony of Connecticut, their esteemed governor to lure back. However, he did not return and the Vice- Governor Thomas Welles made ​​Hopkins last term in office.