Thomas Day (July 6, 1777 – March 1, 1855)[1] was an American jurist, politician, editor, and author who served as the secretary of the state of Connecticut from 1810 to 1835.
Day was tutored by Barzzilai Slosson and was instructed in Latin and Greek by his father and brother, Jeremiah.
[4] In 1821, Thomas Day was one of three legal scholars, along with Zephaniah Swift and Lemuel Whitman, that authored an omnibus act which is considered the first time an American legislature took measures to address abortion in statute form.
[6] He was the first recording secretary and an original member of the Connecticut Historical Society, of which he was president from 1839 until his death.
[8] At least in 1878, a portrait of Thomas Day by Alexander Hamilton Emmons, an American painter of Norwich, Connecticut, made near the end of his life, adorned the walls of the rooms of the Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford.