Thomas J. Dodd
U.S. Congressperson
1907 – 1971
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Who was Thomas J. Dodd?
Thomas Joseph Dodd was a United States Senator and Representative from Connecticut, He was the first Senator censured by the US Senate since Joseph McCarthy in 1954, and was one of only six people censured by the Senate in the 20th century. He is the father of former U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd and Thomas J. Dodd, Jr., who served as the United States Ambassador to Uruguay from 1993–1997 and to Costa Rica from 1997–2001 .
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- Born
- May 15, 1907
Norwich - Also known as
- Thomas Dodd
- Thomas Joseph Dodd
- Parents
- Spouses
- Grace Murphy Dodd
(1934 - )
- Grace Murphy Dodd
- Children
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Yale University
- Providence College
- Saint Anselm College
- Yale Law School
- Lived in
- Willimantic
- Died
- May 24, 1971
Old Lyme
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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