
Henry Dutton (12 February 1796-26 April 1869) was the Whig Governor of Connecticut from 3 May 1854 to 2 May 1855, succeeding Charles H. Pond and preceding William T. Minor.
Biography[]
Henry Dutton was born in Plymouth, Connecticut in 1796, and he tutored at his alma mater of Yale before practicing law in Newtown and intermittently serving in the State House. He became Connecticut's last Whig governor in 1854, and he enacted a prohibition law. He died in 1869.