Ernest Cady (September 6, 1842 – February 16, 1908) was an American businessman and

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who served as the 65th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1893 to 1895.

Early life

Cady was born on September 6, 1842 in

Stafford, Connecticut Stafford is a town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States, settled in 1719. The population was 11,472 at the 2020 United States Census. The community consists of the downtown area of Stafford Springs and the more rural villages of Crysta ...

. He was the second oldest of six children born to Garner Cady, Jr. (1805–1852), who was "killed in his prime by a runaway horse", and Emily (

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Greene) Cady (1813–1894). His maternal grandparents were John Taylor Greene and Eleanor (née Edson) Greene and he was descended from Nicholas Cady, the namesake of

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, who lived in

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in 1645.

Career

During the

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, he enlisted in the

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and fought in the

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. Following the end of the War, he returned to Connecticut, first Stafford then Hartford, and became a prominent manufacturer and capitalist, as the president of Pratt & Cady Company. In 1892, he was nominated as the Democratic

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, winning election in November 1892. Succeeding

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James L. Howard, Cady served as the 65th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut under

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Luzon B. Morris Luzon Buritt Morris (April 16, 1827 – August 22, 1895) was an American lawyer and politician from Connecticut. He served as the 55th governor of Connecticut. Biography Morris was born in Newtown, Connecticut. He prepared for college at the C ...

from 1893 to 1895, during which time he presided in the

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during the session of 1893 "with dignity and success, winning the admiration and esteem of both parties in the

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." While in office, he was also one of the Water Commissioners in Hartford and was a "controlling spirit" in the Hartford Board of Trade. In

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, at the end of his term as Lt. Governor, Cady was nominated as the Democratic nominee for governor of Connecticut to succeed Morris, who would become the only member of the Democratic Party to hold the governorship of Connecticut between 1885 and 1911. He lost the election to the Republican

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and was succeeded as Lt. Governor by

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, who later became Governor after Coffin. He later served as a Trustee of the Society for Savings, a Director of the National Machine Company, and was on the advisory board of the Board of Education of the Blind. Cady was also a prominent

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and a member of the

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Personal life

On January 16, 1871, Cady was married to Ellen E. Hyde (1843–1906). Ellen was the daughter of Hannah Converse (née Young) Hyde and Ephraim H. Hyde, who served as President Pro Tempore of the

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as well as the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1867 to 1869. Together, they were the parents of two sons: * Ernest Hyde Cady (1873–1965), a

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graduate and champion runner who went to London to represent the university and later worked for the

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. * Charles Washburn Cady (1877–1900), who died during his junior year at Yale (class of 1901). Cady died of heart disease on February 16, 1908 and was found in the bathtub in his home in

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. He was buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford.

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