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Thomas J. DoddThomas Joseph Dodd (1907-1971) was a United States Senator and Representative from Connecticut. Early Life He was born in Norwich, New London County, Conn., on May 15, 1907. He graduated from Providence College in 1930, and Yale University Law School in 1933. He served as a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1933 and 1934, and was Connecticut director of the National Youth Administration 1935-1938. He was assistant to five successive United States Attorneys General from 1938-1945 and became vice chairman of the Board of Review and later executive trial counsel for the Office of the United States Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality at Nuremberg, Germany, in 1945 and 1946. He engaged in the private practice of law in Hartford, Connecticut, from 1947 to 1953. Congress Dodd was elected as a Democrat to the House of Representatives in 1952, and served two terms. He lost a Senate election in 1956 to Prescott S. Bush, but was elected in 1958 to Connecticut's other Senate seat. He was re-elected in 1964, but in 1967 he was censured by the Senate for using campaign funds for personal purposes, and in 1970 he lost his re-election campaign when his own party nominated a candidate against him. Dodd died on May 24, 1971. His son, Christopher J. Dodd, was elected to the Senate as a Connecticut Democrat in 1980. Dodd, Thomas Dodd, Thomas Dodd, Thomas
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