David Daggett was a U.S. senator, mayor of New Haven, Connecticut, Judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors, and a founder of the Yale Law School. He helped block plans for the first college for African Americans in the United States and presided over the conviction of a woman running a boarding school for African Americans in violation of Connecticut's recently passed Black Law. He judged African Americans not to be citizens and supported their colonization to Africa.
- Occupation
- politician, lawyer, university teacher, judge
- Position held
- Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives, United States senator, United States senator, United States senator
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
