Emilio Q. Daddario

Emilio Quincy Daddario (born September 24 1918) was a Democratic politician from Connecticut. He was born in Newton Center, Suffolk County, Massachusetts on a September 24, 1918. He served as a member of the 86th through 91st United States Congresses. He attended public school in Boston, Massachusetts as well as Tilton Academy in New Hampshire and the Newton Country Day School in Massachusetts. He graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut in 1939.

Daddario attended Boston University Law School from 1939 to 1941 buttransferred to the University of Connecticut from which he graduated in 1942. He was admitted to the bar in Connecticut and Massachusetts that year. He began his law practice in Middletown, Connecticut. In February 1943 enlisted as a private in the United States Army. He was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services at Fort Meade, Maryland and served in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations. He was a captain when he left the service in September 1945. He received the Legion of Merit and Italian Medaglia d’Argento.

Daddario continued his military service in the Connecticut National Guard. He served as mayor of Middletown, Connecticut from 1946 to 1948. He was appointed a judge of the Middletown Municipal Court where he served from 1948 to 1950. During the Korean War, he returned to active duty as a major with the Forty-third Division of the Connecticut National Guard in the Far East Liaison Group until 1952. He then returned to his law practice in Hartford, Connecticut.

Daddario won election in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress and served in till January 3, 1971. He did not stand for re-election to the Ninety-second Congress in 1970. He ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Connecticut in 1970. He continued public service as Director of the Office of Technology Assessment from 1973 to 1977.

Daddario served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 1977-1978. He co-chaired the American Bar Association's Association for the Advancement of Sciences and the Conference of Lawyers and Scientists from 1979 to 1989. He lives in Washington, D.C.

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ee also

:United States congressional delegations from Connecticut