1. Emilio Quincy Daddario was an American Democratic politician from Connecticut.
18 Facts About Emilio Daddario
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Emilio Daddario served as a member of the 86th through 91st United States Congresses.
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Emilio Daddario attended public school in Boston as well as Tilton Academy in New Hampshire and the Newton Country Day School in Massachusetts.
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Emilio Daddario attended Boston University Law School from 1939 to 1941 but transferred to the University of Connecticut School of Law from which he graduated in 1942.
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Emilio Daddario was admitted to the bar in Connecticut and Massachusetts that year.
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Emilio Daddario was assigned to the Office of Strategic Services at Fort Meade, Maryland and served in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations.
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Emilio Daddario's decorations included the Legion of Merit and the Bronze Star Medal.
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Emilio Daddario continued his military service in the Connecticut National Guard.
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Emilio Daddario served as mayor of Middletown, Connecticut from 1946 to 1948.
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Emilio Daddario was appointed a judge of the Middletown Municipal Court where he served from 1948 to 1950.
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Emilio Daddario then returned to his law practice in Hartford, Connecticut.
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Emilio Daddario won election in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress and served until January 3,1971.
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Emilio Daddario served on a subcommittee that was involved with the planning and development of the Apollo missions to the moon.
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Emilio Daddario ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Connecticut in 1970, losing the general election to Thomas J Meskill.
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Emilio Daddario continued his career in public service as Director of the Office of Technology Assessment from 1973 to 1977.
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Emilio Daddario served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science from 1977 to 1978.
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Emilio Daddario co-chaired the American Bar Association's Association for the Advancement of Sciences and the Conference of Lawyers and Scientists from 1979 to 1989.
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Emilio Daddario died on July 7,2010, from heart failure, according to his son, Richard, the New York Police Department's incoming deputy commissioner for counter-terrorism.