Thomas Hooker
✓ Source-basedfallingPuritan minister (1586-1647)
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Thomas Hooker was a prominent English colonial leader and Congregational minister, who founded the Connecticut Colony after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was known as an outstanding speaker and an advocate of universal Christian suffrage.
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Cuckoos Farm, Little Baddow, Essex, Hooker's home around 1629
Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford, in 1636, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846
Hooker's statue by Frances Laughlin Wadsworth
Plaque honoring Hooker's ministry at the First Church of Cambridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts
House of Thomas Hooker, Hartford, ConnecticutPoliticians from United Kingdom 6
About this person
Country
United KingdomCategory
Politicians
Type
Politician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1586 to 1647 · aged 61
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