Thaddeus Betts (May 3, 1724 – March 22, 1807) was a physician and member of the

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from Norwalk in the sessions of October 1774, October 1775, May and October 1776, May 1784, October 1785, and May 1786. He was the son of John Betts, Jr. and Demaris Lockwood. He graduated from

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prior to 1752, and upon graduation, won a Berkeley Scholarship. As early as 1752, he settled in Ridgefield, but moved back to Norwalk soon afterwards. He married Mary Gold on November 8, 1752, but she died 12 days later. He married Elizabeth Maltby on May 15, 1754. They had one son, William Maltby Betts, who also served in the

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, was a judge, and father of

Thaddeus Betts Thaddeus Laddins Betts (February 4, 1789 – April 7, 1840) was the 32nd and 34th Lieutenant Governor of the state of Connecticut from 1832 to 1833 and from 1834 to 1835, and a United States Senator from Connecticut from 1839 to 1840. He had ...

, lieutenant governor. He served in the Connecticut General Assembly representing Norwalk in 1774, 1775, 1776. An M.D. degree was conferred on him by the Connecticut Medical Society in 1797. His wife Elizabeth died on February 8, 1789. He married the widow of a former classmate, Daniel Lyman, on November 8, 1789. He died in Norwalk on March 22, 1807.

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