Edward Hopkins was an English colonist and politician and 2nd Governor of the Connecticut Colony. Active on both sides of the Atlantic, he was a founder of the New Haven and Connecticut colonies, serving seven one-year terms as Governor of Connecticut. He returned to England in the 1650s, where he was politically active in the administration of Oliver Cromwell as a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty and member of Parliament. He remained in England despite being elected Governor of Connecticut in 1655, and died in London in 1657.
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- colonial governor of Connecticut, Member of Parliament in the Parliament of England, Member of the Second Protectorate Parliament, colonial governor of Connecticut
- Citizenship
- United States
