Matches in Harvard for { ?s ?p Stanley Griswold (1763-1815) was a Congregational clergyman in New Milford, Connecticut (1789-1803) and later was a Democratic-Republican politician from Ohio. Griswold was born in Torrington, Connecticut and he served in the militia during the Revolutionary War. After graduating from Yale College in 1786, he taught at Norwich, Connecticut and began studying theology. In 1789 he served as pastor at the First Congregational Church in New Milford, Connecticut, where he preached until 1802. His republican political sympathies made life uncomfortable in Federalist Connecticut and he left the ministry in 1803, going to Walpole, New Hampshire, to become editor of the new Democratic newspaper The Political Observatory. He stayed with the paper until the spring of 1805 when he was appointed Secretary to the new Territory of Michigan (1805-1808). After this he served as acting governor of Michigan for a time, later moved to Ohio where he was appointed to the United States Senate to fill a vacancy (1809). Griswold then moved to the Illinois Territory, where he was appointed as a federal judge, serving on the bench and as a lawyer until his death in Shawneetown, Illinois in 1815.. }
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- catalog description "Stanley Griswold (1763-1815) was a Congregational clergyman in New Milford, Connecticut (1789-1803) and later was a Democratic-Republican politician from Ohio. Griswold was born in Torrington, Connecticut and he served in the militia during the Revolutionary War. After graduating from Yale College in 1786, he taught at Norwich, Connecticut and began studying theology. In 1789 he served as pastor at the First Congregational Church in New Milford, Connecticut, where he preached until 1802. His republican political sympathies made life uncomfortable in Federalist Connecticut and he left the ministry in 1803, going to Walpole, New Hampshire, to become editor of the new Democratic newspaper The Political Observatory. He stayed with the paper until the spring of 1805 when he was appointed Secretary to the new Territory of Michigan (1805-1808). After this he served as acting governor of Michigan for a time, later moved to Ohio where he was appointed to the United States Senate to fill a vacancy (1809). Griswold then moved to the Illinois Territory, where he was appointed as a federal judge, serving on the bench and as a lawyer until his death in Shawneetown, Illinois in 1815.".