- 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 through91st United States Congress es. He attended public school inBoston, Massachusetts as well as Tilton Academy in New Hampshire and theNewton Country Day School in Massachusetts. He graduated fromWesleyan University inMiddletown, Connecticut in 1939.Daddario attended
Boston University Law School from 1939 to 1941 buttransferred to theUniversity 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 inMiddletown, Connecticut . In February 1943 enlisted as a private in theUnited States Army . He was assigned to theOffice of Strategic Services at Fort Meade, Maryland and served in theMediterranean Theater of Operations . He was a captain when he left the service in September 1945. He received theLegion 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 inHartford, 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. References
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United States congressional delegations from Connecticut
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