Ronald A. Sarasin

Ronald A. Sarasin

Ronald Arthur Sarasin (born December 31, 1934 in Fall River , Massachusetts ) is an American politician . Between 1973 and 1979 he represented the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ronald Sarasin attended Connecticut public schools and then studied at the University of Connecticut until 1960 . He then studied law at the law faculty of this university until 1963. In the same year he was admitted to the bar. Sarasin had interrupted his training during the Korean War to serve in the US Navy from 1952 to 1956 .

Between 1963 and 1966 he taught law at New Haven College . Politically, he became a member of the Republican Party . Between 1963 and 1972 he was a councilor in Beacon Falls ; from 1968 to 1972 he sat as an MP in the Connecticut House of Representatives , where he was deputy parliamentary group leader since 1970. In 1968, 1970, 1972, and 1974, he was a delegate to the Connecticut regional Republican conventions. In 1976 Sarasin took part as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Kansas City , at which US President Gerald Ford was nominated for re-election.

In 1972 Sarasin was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Connecticut , where he succeeded Democrat John S. Monagan on January 3, 1973 . After two re-elections in 1974 and 1976, he was able to complete three consecutive terms in Congress until January 3, 1979 . These were shaped by the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate affair , among other things . In 1978, Sarasin renounced another candidacy for the House of Representatives. Instead, he ran for Connecticut governor . Lewis B. Rome acted as his running mate . Sarasin was clearly defeated by the democratic incumbent Ella T. Grasso .

Sarasin has been President of the United States Capitol Historical Society since 2000 .

Web links

• Ronald A. Sarasin in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lewis B. Rome dies, led GOP ticket in 1982 , July 2, 2015, The Connecticut Mirror