Barbara B. Kennelly

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Barbara B. Kennelly

Barbara Bailey Kennelly (born July 10, 1936 in Hartford , Connecticut ) is an American politician . Between 1982 and 1999 she represented the first constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Barbara Kennelly was born Barbara Ann Bailey in 1936. She is the daughter of John Moran Bailey , a longtime Democratic Party leader in Connecticut who also served on the Democratic National Committee from 1961 to 1968 . She attended the Joseph Cathedral School and then until 1954 the Mount St. Joseph Academy in Hartford. She then continued her education until 1958 at Trinity College in Washington, DC and then until 1959 at Harvard University , where she studied business administration . She graduated from Trinity College , Hartford in 1971 .

Politically, like her father, she became a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1975 and 1979 she served on Hartford City Council; from 1979 to 1982 she served as Secretary of State executive officer in the state government of Connecticut. After the death of Congressman William R. Cotter , she was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the necessary by-election. There she took up her new mandate on January 12, 1982. After eight re-elections, she could remain in Congress until January 3, 1999 .

In 1998 she decided not to run again. Instead, she ran unsuccessfully for the governor of Connecticut; she was subject to the Republican incumbent John G. Rowland . Since 2002 she has been president of the Medicare Social Security and Health Insurance Committee . She is also a board member of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems , which provides electoral assistance in many countries.

Barbara Kennelly was married to the late James J. Kennelly, an MP and President of the Connecticut House of Representatives .

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