leader of the Green Party of Canada Alice Merritt (1876–1950), first woman to serve in the Connecticut State Senate (1925–1929); represented Hartford Lewis Rome (1933–2015), Connecticut State Senate leader and Republican Party nominee in the 1982 Connecticut gubernatorial election Maria W. Stewart, abolitionist Thomas A. Sullivan, Wisconsin State Assemblyman Elmer Watson, US Army officer and Connecticut State Senate majority leader Sports Michael Adams (born 1963), NBA player Nick Bonino (born 1988), NHL player Marcus Camby (born 1974), NBA player John Carney (born 1964), NFL placekicker Andre Drummond (born 1993), NBA player for the Los Angeles Lakers Jayson Durocher (born 1974), MLB player for the Milwaukee Brewers Johnny Egan (born 1939), NBA player Dwight Freeney (born 1980), NFL player Craig Janney (born 1968), NHL player Tyrique Jones (born 1997), basketball player for Hapoel Tel Aviv in the Israeli Basketball Premier League Rick Mahorn (born 1958), NBA player Eric Mangini (born 1971), head coach of Cleveland Browns and New York Jets Cliff Olander (born 1955), player of gridiron football Steve Potts (born 1967), former West Ham United footballer, current U21 coach Ryan Preece (born 1990), NASCAR driver Eugene Robinson (born 1963), NFL player Will Solomon (born 1978), basketball player John Sullivan (born 1961), NFL player Roderick G. (Rod) Taylor (1943–2014), Olympic skier Tony Younger (born 1980), American-Israeli basketball player in the Israeli National League Sports broadcasters Steve Berthiaume, ESPN anchor Mike Crispino, sportscaster for WVIT and WRCH, and ESPN Jason Jackson, hosted a local sports radio show on ESPN Radio Charley Steiner, Los Angeles Dodgers sportscaster Other A. Everett "Chick" Austin (1900–1957), arts innovator and director of the Wadsworth Atheneum Julie Banderas (born 1973), Emmy Award-winning, television news anchor Nathaniel Bar-Jonah (1957–2008), convicted child molester and a suspected serial killer and cannibal William Bryden (1880–1972), U.S. Army major general Reverend Horace Bushnell (1802–1876), Hartford civic champion Samuel Colt (1814–1862), firearm inventor Austin Cornelius Dunham, businessman who was chief executive officer of Hartford Electric Light Company. John H. Griebel (1901–1969), Marine Corps General George Keller (1842–1935), architect, noted for Hartford's Soldiers' and Sailors' Arch and Hartford Union Station Stephen Cole Kleene (1909–1994), mathematician Howard Long (1905–1939), convicted murderer and child molester Rachel Taylor Milton, community activist and Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame inductee J.P. Morgan (1837–1913), financier and industrialist Joseph B. Murdock (1851–1931), US Navy Rear Admiral Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), urban planner, noted for many of the New York City parks and