Toby Moffett

Anthony John "Toby" Moffett (born August 18, 1944 in Holyoke , Hampden County , Massachusetts ) is an American politician . Between 1975 and 1983 he represented the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Toby Moffett attended elementary school and then high school in Suffield, Connecticut. He then studied at Syracuse University in New York until 1966 . This was followed by studies in Florence in 1963 and 1964 . Moffett graduated from Boston College in 1968 .

Between 1969 and 1970 Moffett was department head in the Federal Ministry of Education. From 1970 to 1971 he was a member of the staff of the US Senator Walter Mondale . Between 1971 and 1974, Moffett served as the director of the Connecticut Citizen Action Group . Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1974 congressional election, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Connecticut , where he succeeded Ella T. Grasso on January 3, 1975 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four consecutive terms in Congress by January 3, 1983 .

For the 1982 elections, Moffett declined to run for the House of Representatives. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the US Senate . He was then between 1986 and 1989 news anchor for a television company in Hartford . In 1990 he ran unsuccessfully to return to Congress. Today Toby Moffett works as a consultant in Washington.

Web links

Toby Moffett in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Moffett, Toby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Moffett, Anthony John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician
DATE OF BIRTH	August 18, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH	Holyoke , Massachusetts