William St. Onge

William Leon St. Onge (born October 9, 1914 in Putnam , Connecticut , † May 1, 1970 in Groton , Connecticut) was an American politician . Between 1963 and 1970 he represented the second constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William St. Onge attended elementary school in his hometown of Putnam; then he studied until 1941 at Tufts University in Medford ( Massachusetts ). During the Second World War between 1942 and 1945 he was a soldier in the Air Corps of the US Army in North Africa and Europe. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1948, he began working in his new profession in Putnam. Between 1948 and 1962 he was a judge at a probate court; from 1955 to 1961 he was also the municipal judge in Putnam.

St. Onge was a member of the Democratic Party . From 1939 to 1941 he was a member of the Putnam Schools Committee, and from 1941 to 1942 he was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives . From 1956 to 1958 St. Onge was the chairman of an agency that dealt with the further development of the city of Putnam. Between 1961 and 1962 he was the mayor of this place.

In the 1962 congressional elections, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second district of Connecticut . There he took over from the Republican Horace Seely-Brown on January 3, 1963 . After three re-elections, he was able to exercise his mandate in Congress until his death on May 1, 1970. His time in Congress was shaped by the events of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement.

Web links

• William St. Onge in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William St. Onge in the database of Find a Grave (English)