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Roger Griswold (May 21, 1762 – October 25, 1812) was a nineteenth-century lawyer, politician and judge from Connecticut. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court and the 22nd Governor of Connecticut, serving as a Federalist. ==Biography== Griswold was born in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut to Matthew Griswold and Ursula (Wolcott) Griswold of the prominent Griswold Family.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title =Roger Griswold, )〕 He pursued classical studies, entered Yale College at the age of fourteen and graduated from Yale in 1780. He received a Doctor of Law degree from Harvard University in 1811, and a Doctor of Law degree from Yale in 1812.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title =Connecticut Governor Roger Griswold, )〕 Griswold studied law with his father and was admitted to the bar in 1783.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title =Roger Griswold )〕 He began the practice of law in Norwich, Connecticut. He returned to Lyme in 1794 and was elected as a Federalist candidate to the Fourth United States Congress and to the five succeeding Congresses. Griswold served in Congress from March 4, 1795 until his resignation in 1805 prior to the convening of the Ninth Congress.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Rep. Roger Griswold )〕 During the Sixth Congress, he served as chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business and as a member of the Committee on Ways and Means.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=GRISWOLD, Roger, (1762 - 1812) )〕 In 1803 Griswold, along with several other New England Federalist politicians, proposed secession from the union due to the growing influence of Jeffersonian Democrats and the Louisiana Purchase, which they felt would dilute Northern influence.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title =Roger Griswold, )〕 Griswold declined President John Adams' request for him to serve as the Secretary of War in 1801.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title =Roger Griswold, )〕 Griswold served as judge of the Supreme Court of Connecticut from 1807 to 1809.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title =Griswold, Roger (1762-1812) )〕 He was presidential elector on the Charles Cotesworth Pinckney and Rufus King ticket. He was the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1809 to 1811,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Roger Griswold Papers )〕 and was the Governor of Connecticut from 1811 until his death in Norwich on October 25, 1812. He is interred in Griswold Cemetery at Black Hall, in the town of Lyme (now Old Lyme, Connecticut).〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Roger Griswold , )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roger Griswold」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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