Christopher John Dodd is an American lobbyist,lawyer,and Democratic Party politician who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1981 to 2011. Dodd is the longest-serving senator in Connecticut's history. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1981.
Edward Moore Kennedy Jr. is an American lawyer and politician. He is a partner at Epstein Becker &Green,a firm headquartered in New York City,and previously represented Connecticut's 12th State Senate district in the Connecticut State Senate from 2015 to 2019. He is a son of Senator Edward M. "Ted" Kennedy Sr. from Massachusetts and a nephew of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
Frank Pepe Pizzeria Napoletana,commonly known as Frank Pepe's or simply Pepe's,is a popular pizza restaurant in the Wooster Square neighborhood of New Haven,Connecticut,at 163 Wooster Street. Opened in 1925,it is one of the oldest and best known pizzerias in the United States.
Lawrence Joseph "Larry" DeNardis was an American politician who served as a U.S. Congressman for the state of Connecticut. He was also president of the University of New Haven.
John DeStefano Jr. is an American politician who served as the 49th mayor of New Haven,Connecticut,from 1994 until 2014. He was the Democratic nominee in 2006 for Governor of Connecticut,unsuccessfully challenging incumbent Republican Governor M. Jodi Rell. He was also the named defendant in the landmark 2009 U.S. Supreme Court case of Ricci v. DeStefano. John DeStefano is the son of a New Haven police officer. John and his wife Kathy DeStefano met at the University of Connecticut as undergraduates,where he also earned a Masters in Public Administration. Kathy DeStefano is a first grade teacher in West Haven,Connecticut,and they are the parents of two adult sons.
Susan Bysiewicz is an American politician and attorney who is the 109th lieutenant governor of Connecticut,serving since January 9,2019. She previously served as the 72nd secretary of the state of Connecticut from 1999 to 2011. She was briefly a candidate for governor of Connecticut in 2010,before dropping out to run for Connecticut Attorney General. She was disqualified from running for the office by the Connecticut Supreme Court and announced in 2011 that she was running for the United States Senate in the 2012 election to replace the retiring Joe Lieberman. She lost the Democratic primary to U.S. Representative Chris Murphy,who went on to win the general election.
Edward Miner Lamont Jr. is an American businessman and politician serving since January 2019 as the 89th governor of Connecticut. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as a Greenwich selectman from 1987 to 1989 and was the party's nominee for the United States Senate in 2006,losing to incumbent Joe Lieberman.
Dannel Patrick Malloy is an American politician,who served as the 88th governor of Connecticut from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,he chaired the Democratic Governors Association from 2016 to 2017. On July 1,2019,he began his tenure as the Chancellor of the University of Maine System.
The 2006 United States Senate election in Connecticut was held November 7,2006. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman won his fourth and final term in the Senate,under the Connecticut for Lieberman party banner.
Joseph Maturo Jr. is an American politician. He is the long-term mayor of East Haven,Connecticut. He is a Republican and with his re-election in 2005,he became the second person in East Haven history to be elected for five terms as mayor,serving 1997–2007. After two terms away,in 2011 he won re-election again,establishing a record six terms,and in 2017 was again re-elected for 9th term.
Martin M. Looney is an American politician. Looney,a Democrat,has been a state senator from Connecticut since 1993. From 2003 to 2014,Looney served as Majority Leader of the Senate;in 2015 he became President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
Gayle Slossberg is an American politician. A Democrat,Slossberg is a former seven term Connecticut State Senator having served between 2005 and 2019.
Toni Nathaniel Harp is an American politician who served as the 50th Mayor of New Haven,Connecticut. Harp,a Democrat,was previously a state senator in Connecticut from 1993 to 2013. A resident of New Haven,Harp represented the western half of the city as well as part of West Haven while in the Connecticut Senate.
Westbury Senior High School is a ninth-through-12th-grade school of the Westbury Union Free School District,the district covering the village of Westbury,New York,USA.
Matthew L. Lesser is an American politician who represents the 9th district in the Connecticut State Senate. First elected to the State House in 2008,Lesser was re-elected in 2010,2012,2014,and 2016. In 2018 he was elected as state senator for the 9th district,winning 57% of the vote.
The 2010 Connecticut gubernatorial election took place on November 2,2010,to elect the 88th Governor of Connecticut. Incumbent Republican Governor Jodi Rell had announced in a press conference in Hartford on November 9,2009,that she would not seek re-election in 2010. The sites Cook Political Report and CQ Politics both rated the election as a toss-up. This was the first open seat gubernatorial election in the state since 1994. As of 2023,this is the last time the Governor’s office in Connecticut changed partisan control.
Jason L. McCoy is the former mayor of Vernon,Connecticut,and a trial lawyer. In 2009,McCoy was elected to his first term in 2007. McCoy was re-elected as mayor. He had served on the Vernon Town Council and was the deputy mayor of Vernon from 2005 to 2007. In 2009,McCoy was one of six mayors in Connecticut chosen by the Governor M. Jodi Rell to work closely with state officials and lawmakers to identify savings and recommend mandate relief to help close Connecticut's state budget shortfall. McCoy served as mayor of a municipality that holds town meetings to pass the mayor's yearly proposed municipal budget,which can then be sent to referendum for approval by privately cast ballot. During McCoy's two terms as mayor of Vernon he proposed and passed four municipal budgets. The Town of Vernon municipal budgets during McCoy's terms as mayor resulted in the municipal tax rate or mil rate needed to fund the municipal budget being reduced in the 2008–09,2009–10 budgets,the 2010–11 tax rate or mil rate remained the same. In the 2011–12 budget the tax rate was cut which resulted in a taxes cut to the taxpayers in the Town of Vernon,Connecticut. The 2011–12 budget proposal was passed and adopted at the annual town meeting as opposed to being sent to referendum.
The 2014 Connecticut gubernatorial election took place on November 4,2014,to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of Connecticut,concurrently with elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
Lubbie Harper Jr. is an American lawyer and judge who was the third African American to become a justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court,serving from 2011 through 2012. While seconded to the court in 2008,he cast the deciding vote in Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health,a ruling that legalized same-sex marriage in Connecticut. Harper also served as a justice on the Connecticut Superior Court (1997–2005) and on the Connecticut Appellate Court (2005–2011).
Robert Charles Sampson is an American politician from Connecticut. A member of the Republican Party,he was first elected in 2010 to the Connecticut House of Representatives from the 80th House district,serving four terms (2011–2018). Since 2019,he has been a member of the Connecticut State Senate,elected from the 16th Senate District.
