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September 9: A Pair of Shoemakers Try On the Governor’s Office – Today in Connecticut History
https://todayincthistory.com/2025/09/09/september-9-the-shoe-manufacturing-lounsbury-brothers-try-on-the-governors-office/
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When shoe-manufacturer Phineas Chapman Lounsbury of Ridgefield, Connecticut won the Republican party nomination for governor on September 9, 1886, it marked the beginning of a short-lived bu…