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  It became a state in 1630's
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  the first english settlers came in 1633 and sattled at windsor
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  of Massachusetts, received permission to create a new colony at Old Saybrook at the mouth of the Connecticut River in 1635. This was the first of three distinct
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  connecticut colony was an english colony located in the British america that became the us state connecticut originally known as the river colony,it was organized on march 3, 1636 as a haven for puritan nolbmen
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  The fundamental orders written in 1639 Janurary 24th
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  The third colony was founded in March 1638. New Haven Colony originally known as the Quinnipiack Colony
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  in 1662 the three colonies were merged under royal charter making connecticut crown colony
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  The Connecticut State Senate is the upper house of the Connecticut General Assembly, the state legislature of the US state of Connecticut. The state senate comprises 36 members, each representing a district with around 99,280 inhabitants. Senators are elected to two-year terms without term limits. The Connecticut State Senate is one of 14 state legislative upper houses whose members serve two-year terms; four-year terms are more common. As in other upper houses of state and territorial legislat
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  since January 8 2003 there has been a new majority leader
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  a new session started on January 5,2011