Albert W. Cretella

Albert William Cretella (born April 22, 1897 in New Haven , Connecticut , †  May 24, 1979 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1953 and 1959 he represented the third constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Albert Cretella attended the public schools in his home country and then Yale University until 1917 . At the same university he began to study law, which he interrupted in June 1918 to join the US Navy during the First World War . At the time of the armistice in November 1918, Cretella was attending an officers' school. He later continued his law degree at Yale. After his admission to the bar in 1921, he began working in his new profession in New Haven. In 1926 he moved to North Haven . Between 1931 and 1970, with an interruption in 1946 and 1947, Cretella was the town's legal advisor. From 1931 to 1945 he worked as a public prosecutor.

Cretella was a member of the Republican Party . From 1947 to 1952 he was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives . In the 1952 congressional elections, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington in the third district of Connecticut . There he stepped on January 3, 1953 to succeed the Democrat John A. McGuire , whom he had defeated in the election. After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1959 . In the elections of 1958 he was defeated by the Democrat Robert Giaimo , against whom he ran unsuccessfully in 1960.

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Albert Cretella worked again as a lawyer. He died in New Haven in May 1979.

Web links

• Albert W. Cretella in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Albert W. Cretella in the database of Find a Grave (English)