In a message dated 6/14/2002 1:26:51 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jlstokes@supernet.com writes: << I don't know, could someone be a royal governor and be democratically elected also ? This seems like a contradiction to me. Could your contact have meant that he was elected Governor by the King or his council ? Jim >> Jim: Jonathan Trumbull was elected governor by the voters of Connecticut. Whether he could be thus elected and still be a royal governor is the question. Maybe he could. Maybe everything that was American was considered royal then. Trumbull succeeded a man named Fitch, as I recall, and I think they were on opposing sides in the leading Connecticut issue of that pre-Rev time: the Susquehanna question. CT being a small colony, there was much looking around for room in which to expand. This was found in guess-what-colony? Yours! But there were heated pros and cons. There were inflamed passions, some of which transferred over into the ensuing Revolutionary fervor that was brought on by the Boston Port Act of 1774. This is spelled out in Oscar Zeichner's Connecticut: Years of Controversy; title off the top of my head (as is most everything else noted here). Thanks for your interest. Anne