Raymond E. Baldwin

Raymond Earl Baldwin (* 31 August 1893 in Rye , Westchester County , New York ; † 4. October 1986 in Greenwich , Connecticut ) was an American politician of the Republican Party .

When Raymond Baldwin was a child, his parents moved him to Connecticut, where he attended public school in Middletown . He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1916 and began law studies at Yale University . This he interrupted in order for the US Navy in World War I to fight. After his time at the officers' school, he initially held the rank of Ensign ; in September 1918 he was promoted to lieutenant . Baldwin said goodbye in 1919 and returned to Yale, where he graduated in 1921. He was inducted into the bar that same year and began practicing in New Haven and Bridgeport .

In 1927 he became a district attorney in Stratford Town Court , which he remained until 1930; from 1931 to 1933 he worked there as a judge . During the same period he was also politically active for the first time: as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives . In 1933 he led the Republican majority faction there. From 1933 to 1938 Baldwin worked again as a lawyer; meanwhile he held the office of city council chairman in Stratford between 1935 and 1937.

In 1938, the Republican Party put him up as a candidate for governor . Baldwin prevailed against the Democratic incumbent Wilbur Lucius Cross and served for two years; he lost his re-election in 1940 to Robert A. Hurley , but two years later he returned - after defeating Hurley - back to the governorship, which he filled until 1946 after re-election. He resigned on December 25, 1946 after being elected to the US Senate in place of the late Francis T. Maloney . There he finally resigned his mandate on December 16, 1949.

Raymond Baldwin returned to justice and became an associate judge on the Connecticut Supreme Court of Appeals . In 1959 he took over its chairmanship and in 1963 he retired. He held his last public office in 1965 as chairman of the Connecticut Constitutional Convention before retiring into private life.

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SURNAME	Baldwin, Raymond E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Baldwin, Raymond Earl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	August 31, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rye , New York
DATE OF DEATH	4th October 1986
Place of death	Greenwich , Connecticut