Roger Griswold (21 May 1762 – 25 October 1812) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-CN) from 4 March 1795 to 1805 (succeeding Chauncey Goodrich and preceding Nathaniel Smith) and Governor of Connecticut from 9 May 1811 to 25 October 1812 (succeeding John Treadwell and preceding John Cotton Smith).
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Roger Griswold was born in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut in 1762. He became a lawyer in Norwich in 1783, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1795 to 1805, brawling with rival politician Matthew Lyon in February 1798 after an exchange of insults and spit, and proposing New England's secession in 1803 due to the Louisiana Purchase and the rise of the Democratic-Republicans. He served as a judge on the State Supreme Court from 1807 to 1809 and as Governoro from 1811 until his death in 1812.