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Thomas Clap Perkins (July 29, 1798 – October 11, 1870) was an American lawyer and politician.. Perkins was born in Hartford, Connecticut., July 29, 1798.His father was Enoch Perkins of Hartford, and his mother, Anna Pitkin, was a daughter of Rev. Timothy Pitkin, of Farmington, Connecticut.
Arthur Perkins (1864–1932) was an American lawyer and judge from Hartford, Connecticut who, during his retirement, spearheaded the effort to make Benton MacKaye's vision of the Appalachian Trail (a proposed 2,000-mile contiguous footpath to run through fourteen states) a reality.
He was born in Lisbon, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale College in 1786. Afterwards, he studied law and was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in New London, Connecticut. Perkins was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives 1795–1800, 1814, and 1815 and served as speaker in 1798 and 1815. He was an assistant judge of ...
Seth Perkins Staples (Aug. 31, 1776- Nov. 6, 1861) was an American lawyer and politician. He founded what became the New Haven Law School, which was absorbed by Yale University as their Yale Law School. He was the brother-in-law of Roger Sherman Jr. He was the son of Rev. John and Susanna (Perkins) Staples, and was born in Canterbury, Connecticut.
In 1848, he worked in his father’s law office, and by 1851 Perkins was admitted to the Connecticut Bar. In 1852, Perkins graduated as a librarian from Connecticut Normal School, [3] now Central Connecticut State University, and became a teacher for a short time in Greenwich, Connecticut. [4]
Emily Pitkin (Perkins) Baldwin (January 1, 1796 – January 29, 1874), was born in Hartford, Connecticut, to Enoch Perkins and Hannah Pitkin. On October 25, 1820, she married Roger Sherman Baldwin, who became the governor of Connecticut in 1844 and US Senator in 1847. Emily and Roger had nine children.
In 1872, less than a decade after he began to practice law, the Connecticut legislature elected him one of a commission of five that made the Revision of 1875, the General Statutes of the State of Connecticut. In the same year he was a member of a state commission appointed to revise the education laws.
Bill Perkins (politician) (born 1950), New York State Senate; Colonel Simon Perkins (1805–1887), Ohio State Senate; Drew Perkins (born 1956), Wyoming State Senate; Elias Perkins (1767–1845), Connecticut State Senate; George B. Perkins (1874–1955), Iowa State Senate; George D. Perkins (1840–1914), Iowa State Senate