Silas Mix (1808 – August 19, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician who served as Secretary to Governor

Henry W. Edwards Henry Waggaman Edwards (October 1779July 22, 1847) was an American lawyer, a Democrat, and the 27th and 29th governor of the U.S. state of Connecticut (1833–1834, 1835–1838). He previously served in both the U.S. Senate (1823 to 1827) and t ...

Mix, the son of William and Lucy (Benham) Mix, was born in

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, Conn., in 1808. He graduated from

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in 1827. Upon graduation he entered

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, where he continued until the autumn of 1829, when he was admitted to the bar in his native city. Soon after he entered the office of the Hon. Senator Nathan Smith, then at the head of the profession, and at once stepped into a large and valuable practice. He mingled also assiduously in politics, and perhaps the asperities of such conflicts acting on a nervous temperament tended to unsettle his mind. In 1832 and again in 1833 he represented New Haven in the

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, and in the latter year was appointed Executive Secretary of Governor

. After a gradual loss of business, owing to his increasing moodiness and irritability, traces of insanity began to show themselves, and about 1850 he was taken to the Retreat for the Insane in

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, where he was confined until his death, August 19, 1882, at the age of 74. He was never married.

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