Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; . a renomination. On the break-ing out of the Mexican War he was commissioned ntajor; atthe close of hostilities he returned to Hartford, and againinterested himself in political affairs. At the election for Governor in 1851, no candidate receiveda majority of the votes; the Legislature after an excitingcontest declared Seymour elected, the ballot being Seymour122; Foster 121. The nominee on the Whig ticket. GreenKendrick, was chosen Lieutenant-Governor by a vote of 124to 120. The following year Seymours opponent was the
Connecticut as a colony and as a state; or, One of the original thirteen; . a renomination. On the break-ing out of the Mexican War he was commissioned ntajor; atthe close of hostilities he returned to Hartford, and againinterested himself in political affairs. At the election for Governor in 1851, no candidate receiveda majority of the votes; the Legislature after an excitingcontest declared Seymour elected, the ballot being Seymour122; Foster 121. The nominee on the Whig ticket. GreenKendrick, was chosen Lieutenant-Governor by a vote of 124to 120. The following year Seymours opponent was thesuccessful occupant of the second position in the executivedepartment of the State; for the first time Seymour receiveda majority of the votes, and the following year he was againelected by an increased majority. He was elected four guber-natorial terms; but in April 1853, having received theappointment of United States Minister to Russia, he resignedhis position as Governor. Governor Seymour was the Amer-ican representative at the Court of Russia for four years; he 198. ^^.2^^. CONNECTICUT AS A STATE then spent a year in European travel before returning toHartford. During the Civil War he was the leader of theConnecticut Peace Democracy. Among the old-time Demo-crats he still retained his popularity, but on his re-entrance intopolitical life in 1863, as the nominee of that party for Gov-ernor, he was defeated after an exciting canvass. At theDemocratic National Convention held in 1864, GovernorSeymour received thirty-eight votes on the first ballot forcandidate for President. His latter years were passed peace-fully at Hartford, where he died Sept. 3, 1868. The retirement of Governor Seymour from the executivechair, a month after the beginning of his fourth term of office,called to the position the then Lieutenant-Governor, CharlesH. Pond, who was born in Milford April 26, 1781. At theage of seventeen he entered Yale College, where he becamenoted for an inexhaustible vein of w
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