The puritan pastor and gifted preacher Thomas Hooker (1586-1647) had fled England to escape the persecution of the High Church Archbishop William Laud for non-conformity. After a period as first minister of the First Parish in Cambridge in 1636 he led his 100-strong congregation away to found a new settlement in Hartford, Connecticut. There he was much instrumental in the establishment of a written constitution for the government of the Colony. This was the first ever written Constitution known to history, that created a government and for this reason he is sometimes known as the father of American democracy.
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