John Trumbull

John Trumbull was born in 1750 in Watertown, Connecticut, the son of a Congregationalist minister. At seven he passed the entrance examination for Yale, which he entered only at thirteen, graduated in 1767, studied law there and served there as a tutor from 1771 to 1773. Called to the bar, he trained in Boston under John Adams, then practised in New Haven. He belonged to the circle of the Hartford Wits, Federalist poets of Connecticut. After 1782 he abandoned verse for the law, became state's attorney, a deputy and then a judge until 1819, and died in Detroit in 1831.

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