Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes ProCon History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture Money Videos
Jonathan Belcher
Table of Contents
Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics
Related Questions
Read Next
Anne Hutchinson. Illustration from 1916. (died 1643) One of the founders of Rhode Island. Banished by Puritans from Massachusetts Bay Colony. Believed in freedom of religion. Religious leader.
7 Massachusetts Bay Colonists to Know
Discover
Iraqi Army Soldiers from the 9th Mechanized Division learning to operate and maintain M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks at Besmaya Combat Training Center, Baghdad, Iraq, 2011. Military training. Iraq war. U.S. Army
8 Deadliest Wars of the 21st Century
Close up of books. Stack of books, pile of books, literature, reading. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society
12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”
Super Typhoon Noru over the western tropical Pacific Ocean as observed by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA Aqua satellite July 31 2017
What Is the Difference Between a Typhoon and a Super Typhoon?
Santa Claus flying in his sleigh, christmas, reindeer
Was Santa Claus a Real Person?
An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.
11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
Los Angeles Police Department wanted flyer on Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia," who was brutally murdered in January 1947. The FBI supported the Los Angeles Police Department in the case, including by identifying Short through her fingerprints that
America’s 5 Most Notorious Cold Cases (Including One You May Have Thought Was Already Solved)
The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (Alice in Wonderland)
11 Banned Books Through Time

Jonathan Belcher: Facts & Related Content

verifiedCite
While every effort has been made to follow citation style rules, there may be some discrepancies. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions.
Select Citation Style
Share
Share to social media
URL
https://www.britannica.com/facts/Jonathan-Belcher
Written and fact-checked by
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

The Information Architects maintain a master list of the topics included in the corpus of  Encyclopædia Britannica, and create and manage the relationships between them.
The Information Architects of Encyclopaedia Britannica

Facts

Born January 8, 1681 or January 8, 1682 • Cambridge • Massachusetts Bay Colony
Died August 31, 1757 • New Jersey
Title / Office governor (1747), New Jersey • governor (1730-1741), Massachusetts Bay Colony • governor (1730-1741), New Hampshire
Christine Todd Whitman
American politician
Warren Rudman
United States senator
Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
president of United States
John Winthrop
John Winthrop
American colonial governor
Chris Christie
Chris Christie
American politician
Maggie Hassan
Maggie Hassan
United States senator
George B. McClellan
George B. McClellan
United States general
Francis Hopkinson
American lawyer, musician, and patriot
Bugsy Siegel
Bugsy Siegel
American gangster
John Sullivan
John Sullivan
American politician and officer
William Paterson
William Paterson
United States statesman
Witherspoon, John
John Witherspoon
American clergyman
Woodbury, Levi
Levi Woodbury
United States jurist
Endecott, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 17th century; in the State House, Boston
John Endecott
British colonial governor
William Livingston, etching by A. Rosenthal, 1888, after a painting by an unknown artist
William Livingston
United States statesman
Thomas Dudley
British colonial governor
Abraham Clark
American patriot
Langdon, John
John Langdon
American politician
Sir Edmund Andros
Sir Edmund Andros
English colonial official
Sir George Carteret, Baronet
British politician