- Thomas Herlihy
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name = Thomas J. Herlihy, Jr.
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birth_date = birth date|1956|11|29|mf=y
birth_place =Queens, New York
residence = Simsbury
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office = Connecticut Senator from the 8th District
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term_start =1999
term_end = present
predecessor = James T. Fleming
successor = Incumbent
party = Republican
religion =
constituency = represents Avon, Barkhamsted, Canton, Colebrook, Granby, Hartland, Harwinton, New Hartford, Norfolk, Simsbury, and Torrington
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footnotes =Thomas J. Herlihy, Jr. is an American politician. Herlihy, a Republican, has been a state senator from
Connecticut since1999 .Herlihy, a resident of Simsbury, represents the northwest suburbs of Hartford in the Farmington Valley and Litchfield County in the Connecticut Senate, including the towns of Avon, Barkhamsted, Canton, Colebrook, Granby, Hartland, Harwinton, New Hartford, Norfolk, Simsbury, and Torrington.
Herlihy was born
Queens, New York and received a B.S. in Education from theUniversity of Hartford . From 1987 to 1990, Hurlihy was onSimsbury 's Board of Selectmen. In 1991, he was elected to the Board of Finance and served as chairman in 1996. [ cite web |url=http://www.senaterepublicans.ct.gov/sen_info/herlihy.aspx |title=State Senator Thomas J. Herlihy |accessdate=2008-03-06] He has also been a Connecticut State Representative.Herlihy is a ranking Republican Senator for the General Assembly’s Education Committee, the General Assembly’s Energy and Technology Committee and the General Assembly’s Select Committee on Children.
Herlihy has announced he will not seek re-election in the 2008 elections.
ee also
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Connecticut Senate References
External links
* [http://www.senaterepublicans.ct.gov/senainfo/Herlihy.htm/ Official website]
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before=Paul Knierim
title=Connecticut state representative from the Sixteenth District
years=1997–1999
after=Robert Heagney
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before=James Fleming
title=Connecticut Senator from the Eighth District
years=1999–present
after=incumbent
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