The Political Graveyard: Dodd family of Norwich, Connecticut

PoliticalGraveyard.com

Dodd family of Norwich, Connecticut

Note: This is just one of 1,164 family groupings listed on The Political Graveyard web site. These families each have three or more politician members, all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.

These groupings — even the names of the groupings, and the areas of main activity — are the result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have, not the choices of any historian or genealogist.

Thomas J. Dodd (1870-1953) — of West Haven, New Haven County, Conn. Born in Norwich, New London County, Conn., 1870. Democrat. Building contractor; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1936. Died in 1953 (age about 83 years). Interment at St. Mary's Cemetery, Norwich, Conn.

		Relatives: Father of Thomas Joseph Dodd; grandfather of Christopher John Dodd.
		Political family: Dodd family of Norwich, Connecticut.

Thomas Joseph Dodd (1907-1971) — also known as Thomas J. Dodd — of Lebanon, New London County, Conn.; West Hartford, Hartford County, Conn.; North Stonington, New London County, Conn. Born in Norwich, New London County, Conn., May 15, 1907. Democrat. FBI special agent; lawyer; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1948, 1952, 1956, 1960, 1968; U.S. Representative from Connecticut 1st District, 1953-57; U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1959-71; defeated, 1956, 1970 (Dodd Independent). Catholic. Member, American Bar Association; Elks; Knights of Columbus. Censured by the Senate on June 23, 1967 for financial improprieties, having diverted some $116,000 in campaign and testimonial funds to his own use. Died of a heart attack, in Old Lyme, New London County, Conn., May 24, 1971 (age 64 years, 9 days). Interment at St. Michael's New Cemetery, Pawcatuck, Stonington, Conn.

		Relatives: Son of Thomas J. Dodd and Abigail (O'Sullivan) Dodd; married, May 19, 1934, to Mary Grace Murphy; father of Christopher John Dodd.
		Political family: Dodd family of Norwich, Connecticut.
		See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier
		Image source: Connecticut Register & Manual 1953

Christopher John Dodd (b. 1944) — also known as Christopher J. Dodd; Chris Dodd — of North Stonington, New London County, Conn.; Norwich, New London County, Conn.; East Haddam, Middlesex County, Conn.; Hartford, Hartford County, Conn. Born in Willimantic, Windham County, Conn., May 27, 1944. Democrat. Served in the Peace Corps; lawyer; U.S. Representative from Connecticut 2nd District, 1975-81; U.S. Senator from Connecticut, 1981-2011; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Connecticut, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008; speaker, 1988; Chairman of Democratic National Committee, 1995-97; candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 2008. Catholic. Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Still living as of 2014.

		Relatives: Son of Thomas Joseph Dodd; grandson of Thomas J. Dodd.
		Political family: Dodd family of Norwich, Connecticut.
		Cross-reference: Rosa L. DeLauro
		See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — NNDB dossier — Internet Movie Database profile

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead.

	The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.
	The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.
	Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.
	The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/families/11233.html.
	Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.
	If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.
Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2023 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.
Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 8, 2023.