Sam Gejdenson

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Sam Gejdenson

Samuel Gejdenson (born May 20, 1948 in Eschwege , Germany ) is an American politician . Between 1981 and 2001 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Sam Gejdenson was born the son of a Belarusian and a Lithuanian in an American refugee camp in Eschwege in northern Hesse . He grew up on a dairy farm in Bozrah, Connecticut. Until 1968 he attended Mitchell Junior College . He then studied at the University of Connecticut until 1970 . In the following years he was at times a farmer and broker and worked for the FAI Trading Company . Politically, Gejdenson became a member of the Democratic Party . In 1973 he was Chairman of the Bozrah City Council, from 1974 to 1978 he was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives. In the meantime he was head of the Montessori School in Norwich .

In the 1980 congressional elections, Gejdenson was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the second district of Connecticut . There he took over from Chris Dodd on January 3, 1981 . After nine, sometimes close, re-elections, he was able to complete ten legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 2001 . There he was temporarily a member and chairman of a subcommittee. Later he was also a member of the International Relations Committee.

In the 2000 elections, Gejdenson was defeated by Republican Rob Simmons . Today he runs his own international trading company. He is married to Betsy Henley-Cohn and lives in Branford . In 2006 he supported Joe Courtney , who won back the second constituency for the Democratic Party in a narrow election against Rob Simmons.

Web links

  • Sam Gejdenson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)