Jeremiah Gates Brainard

Jeremiah Gates Brainard (c. 1759 – January 14, 1830) was a justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court from 1808 to 1829.

Originally elected to the court following the adoption of a new state constitution in 1807,[1] Brainard was the only judge whose tenure survived a political purge in 1817: The Toleration party, a combination of all the elements hostile to the Federalists and the Congregational Establishment, whose watchword was a new Constitution, carried the elections in the fall of 1817.

Judge Brainard, though a Federalist, was retained owing to the support of some of the Tolerationists from his own county.

He was a quiet, business-like judge, who had been a member of the court from 1807, and continued in service for ten years after the enforced retirement of his colleagues.

[1] Brainard "resigned his place on the bench in 1829, his health not being equal to the duties of the office, having served as judge for twenty-two years".