Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative,U.S. Senator,and the 85th Governor of Connecticut. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 1980. He was known as a Rockefeller Republican in Congress,causing conservative-leaning Republicans to endorse his opponent Joe Lieberman,a New Democrat,in the 1988 Senate election which he subsequently lost. Weicker later left the Republican Party,and became one of the few third-party candidates to be elected to a state governorship in the United States in recent years,doing so on the ticket of A Connecticut Party.
The 1976 United States Senate elections was an election for the United States Senate that coincided with Democratic Jimmy Carter's presidential election and the United States Bicentennial celebration. Although almost half of the seats decided in this election changed parties,Carter's narrow victory did not provide coattails for the Democrats,and the balance of the chamber remained the same.
The 1970 United States Senate elections was an election for the United States Senate,taking place in the middle of Richard Nixon's first term as President. The Democrats lost a net of three seats,while the Republicans and the Conservative Party of New York picked up one net seat each,and former Democrat Harry F. Byrd Jr. was re-elected as an independent.
William Atchison O'Neill was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 84th Governor of Connecticut from 1980 to 1991. He was the second longest-serving governor in Connecticut history,with 10 years in office.
Eunice Groark was an American politician who was the first woman elected lieutenant governor of Connecticut in 1990. Groark ran on the ticket of A Connecticut Party (ACP) with Lowell Weicker,winning the election with 41% of the vote. After Weicker declined to run for a second term,Groark ran for governor on the A Connecticut Party ticket but lost the election to Republican candidate John G. Rowland.
Joseph Daniel Duffey was an American academic,educator,anti-war activist and political appointee. He was the Democratic Party's candidate in the 1970 U.S. Senate election in Connecticut,losing to Republican Lowell Weicker. He later served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs;the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities;the director of the U.S. Information Agency;and the president or chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst,the University of Massachusetts system and American University.
A Connecticut Party was a political party formed by former Republican senator and gubernatorial candidate Lowell Weicker in 1990. Weicker subsequently won the 1990 gubernatorial election and served a single term as governor of Connecticut. The party was intentionally named to fall alphabetically first on the ballot.
William Edward Curry Jr. is an American lawyer and politician who has been a two-time Democratic nominee for Governor of Connecticut and a White House advisor in the administration of Bill Clinton.
J. Edward Meyer III is an American politician. Meyer,a Democrat,is a former member of the Connecticut State Senate,representing the 12th District from 2005 to 2015. Meyer was also a member of the New York State Assembly,serving as a Republican from 1971 to 1973 and a Democrat from 1973 to 1975.
The Connecticut Republican Party is the Connecticut affiliate of the national Republican Party.
Anne Levy Wexler was an influential American Democratic political consultant,public policy advisor,and later the first woman to head a leading lobbying firm in Washington,D.C.
The 1994 Connecticut gubernatorial election included Republican John G. Rowland winning the open seat following the retirement of A Connecticut Party Governor Lowell Weicker. The election was a four-way race between A Connecticut Party Lieutenant Governor Eunice Groark,Republican U.S. Congressman John G. Rowland,Democrat state comptroller Bill Curry,and independent conservative talk show host Tom Scott. Rowland won the election with just 36% of the vote.
The 1990 Connecticut gubernatorial election included a three-way race for a seat left open when Governor William A. O'Neill declined to run for re-election. A Connecticut Party nominee Lowell Weicker narrowly won the election,becoming the first candidate who was not a member of one of the two major parties to win a gubernatorial election since the 1974 election in Maine.
The 1988 United States Senate election in Connecticut took place on November 8,1988. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Lowell Weicker ran for re-election to a fourth term,but was narrowly defeated by Democrat Joe Lieberman,the Connecticut Attorney General and eventual 2000 nominee for Vice President of the United States,who would remain in office until 2013.
The 1976 United States Senate election in Connecticut took place on November 2,1976. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Lowell Weicker won re-election to a second term over Secretary of State Gloria Schaffer.
Asa S. Bloomer was a Vermont politician and lawyer who served as Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives and President Pro Tem of the Vermont Senate.
The Chubb Fellowship is a fellowship based and administered through Timothy Dwight College,one of Yale University's twelve residential colleges,and is one of Yale's highest honors for a visiting lecturer. In 1936,Hendon Chubb established a fund for “…the encouragement and aid of students interested in government and public affairs.”In 1949,Chubb and the Master of Timothy Dwight College collaborated to create a visiting fellowship program as the principal means to achieve this goal.
Lewis "Lew" B. Rome was an American attorney and politician who served in the Connecticut State Senate and ran unsuccessfully as the Republican Party nominee in the 1982 Connecticut gubernatorial election.
Robert M. Ward was an American politician who served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1984 to 2007,and as the minority leader from 1995 to 2007,as a member of the Republican Party. He was the longest-serving caucus leader in the state legislature in Connecticut's history.
