George P. McLean

George Payne McLean was the 59th Governor of Connecticut, and a United States Senator from Connecticut.

McLean was born in Simsbury, Connecticut, one of five children of Dudley B. McLean and Mary McLean. His sister Sarah Pratt McLean Greene became a novelist. McLean attended the common schools in Simsbury. At the age of fifteen he entered Hartford High School, traveling to school each day on the train. He graduated in 1876. Upon graduation he took a job as a reporter for the Hartford Evening Post. Leaving the paper in 1879, he entered the Hartford law office of Henry C. Robinson and trained as a lawyer in that office. He remained there eight years, combining his apprenticeship with Robinson with a parttime job in financial management at Trinity College in Hartford. During this time he passed the law exam and was admitted to the bar.

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