George L. Lilley

George Leavens Lilley was born in Oxford, Worcester County, Mass. on August 3, 1859. He moved to Waterbury, Conn. in 1881. He served in the Connecticut State House of Representatives from 1901-1903. He was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-eighth, Fifty-ninth, and Sixtieth Congresses and served from March 4, 1903, to January 5, 1909; he did not seek renomination in 1908, having become a candidate for Governor. He was elected Governor of Connecticut and served from January 5, 1909, until his death in Hartford, Conn. on April 21, 1909. He is interred in Riverside Cemetery, in Waterbury, Conn.