Roger Griswold

[5] He began the practice of law in Norwich, Connecticut, and unsuccessfully ran for Congress in an 1793 special election[6].

[10] Griswold declined President John Adams' request for him to serve as the Secretary of War in 1801.

Matthew Lyon, a Democratic-Republican congressman from Vermont, was ignoring Griswold on purpose, because they were from opposite parties.

Griswold's maternal grandfather Roger Wolcott was the colonial governor of Connecticut from 1751 to 1754.

[22][23] His grandson, Matthew Griswold, served as a state representative in Connecticut in the 1860s, and was later elected to two terms in Congress from Pennsylvania in the 1890s.