Thaddeus Betts

Whig Senator of Connecticut

Congresses Served

Senate Terms

January 1, 1789 (51 years old)

Birthday

January 1, 1840

Death

Served as the 32nd and 34th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut.
Held the position of United States Senator from Connecticut for a brief period.
Was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives and the Connecticut Senate at various times.
Elected as a Whig to the U.S. Senate, serving from March 1839 until his death in April 1840.
Graduated from Yale College and studied law, becoming a practicing lawyer in Norwalk.
His political career included multiple terms in both the state house and state senate.
Died in Washington, D.C., with a funeral attended by the President of the United States.
Interred at Union Cemetery in Norwalk, Connecticut, with a cenotaph at the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, D.C.