Crowbar Governor: The Life and Times of Morgan Gardner Bulkeley

by Kevin Murphy and Kevin Murphy

Book Overview

First biography of one of Connecticut's most colorful and notorious statesmen

While president of Aetna Life from 1879 to 1922, Morgan Bulkeley served four terms as mayor of Hartford, two terms as Connecticut's governor, and one term as a United States senator. His friends and business and political acquaintances were a who's who of the Gilded Age: Samuel Clemens, J. P. Morgan, Samuel and Elizabeth Colt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Leland...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819570745
• ISBN13: 9780819570741
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher