Hiram Bingham III (19 November 1875-6 June 1956) was the Republican Governor of Connecticut from 7 to 8 January 1925 (succeeding Charles A. Templeton and preceding John H. Trumbull) and a US Senator from 8 January 1925 to 3 March 1933 (succeeding Frank B. Brandegee and preceding Augustine Lonergan).
Biography[]
Hiram Bingham III was born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1875, the son of Protestant missionary parents. He graduated from Yale and Harvard and taught history at Harvard before becoming an archaeologist in Peru and inspiring Indiana Jones; in 1911, he rediscovered the city of Macchu Picchu with the guidance of local indigenous farmers. He served in the US Army air service on the Western Front of World War I before serving as Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1923 to 1925; in 1924, he was elected both Governor and US Senator, and he served a single day as Governor (the shortest tenure of any elected governor) before joining the Senate as a liberal Republican. He lost re-election amid the 1932 Democratic landslide, and he died in 1956.