Thomas Hooker
（重定向自Hooker, Thomas）
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![Cuckoos Farm, Little Baddow, Hooker's home around 1629](/Images/godic/202501/18/Cuckoos_Farm_Little_Baddow2844.jpg")
![Hooker and Company Journeying through the Wilderness from Plymouth to Hartford, in 1636, Frederic Edwin Church, 1846](/Images/godic/202501/18/Hooker_and_Company_Frederic_Edwin_Church2844.jpeg")
![Plaque honoring Hooker's ministry at the First Church of Cambridge, Cambridge, Massachusetts](/Images/godic/202501/18/Thomas_Hooker_plaque,_Cambridge_-_IMG_29502844.JPG")
Thomas Hooker (July 5, 1586 – July 7, 1647) was a prominent Puritan colonial leader, who founded the Colony of Connecticut after dissenting with Puritan leaders in Massachusetts. He was known as an outstanding speaker and a leader of universal Christian suffrage.