Phineas Chapman Lounsbury (10 January 1841-22 June 1925) was the Republican Governor of Connecticut from 7 January 1887 to 10 January 1889, succeeding Henry Baldwin Harrison and preceding Morgan Bulkeley.
Biography[]
Phineas Chapman Lounsbury was born in Ridgefield, Connecticut in 1841, the brother of George E. Lounsbury. He worked as a shoe store clerk in New York City before serving in the Union Army during the American Civil War and becoming a shoe manufacturer in New Haven after the war. He served in the State House from 1874 to 1876 and as Governor from 1887 to 1889, and he died in Ridgefield in 1925.