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Senate Years of Service: 1959-1971 Party: Democrat
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DODD, Thomas Joseph, (father of Christopher John Dodd),
a Representative and a Senator from Connecticut; born in Norwich, New London
County, Conn., May 15, 1907; attended the public schools; graduated from St. Anselms
Preparatory School in 1926, Providence College in 1930, and Yale University Law School in 1933;
special agent for Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1933 and 1934; Connecticut director of National
Youth Administration 1935-1938; assistant to five successive United States Attorneys General
1938-1945; vice chairman, Board of Review, and later executive trial counsel, Office of the United
States Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality at Nuremberg, Germany, in 1945 and
1946; engaged in private practice of law in Hartford, Conn., 1947-1953; elected as a Democrat to
the Eighty-third and Eighty-fourth Congresses (January 3, 1953-January 3, 1957); was unsuccessful
for election to the United States Senate in 1956; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in
1958; reelected in 1964 and served from January 3, 1959, to January 2, 1971; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1970; censured by the Senate in 1967 for financial misconduct; was a
resident of Old Lyme, Conn., until his death on May 24, 1971; interment in St. Michaels New
Cemetery, Pawcatuck, Conn.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography; Dodd,
Thomas J. Freedom and Foreign Policy. New York: Bookmailer, 1962; U.S.
Congress. Memorial Addresses for Thomas Joseph Dodd. 92nd Cong., 2nd sess.,
1972. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1972.
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