Toucey, Isaac
lawyer, congressman, governor, United States senator, was born Nov. 5, 1796, in Newton, Conn. He was a representative in congress from Connecticut from 1835 to 1839; and was governor of the state from 1846 to 1847. He was appointed attorney-general of the United States by President Polk. He was a state senator in 1850; and was a senator in congress from 1852 to 1857. In March of the latter year he went into President Buchanan's cabinet as secretary of the navy, serving as such until 1861.
He subsequently founded two scholarships in Trinity college. He died July 30, 1869, in Hartford, Conn.