| LC control no. | n 93022487 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Danaher, John A. (John Anthony), 1899-1990 |
| Variant(s) | Danaher, John Anthony, 1899-1990 Danaher, John Anthony, 1899- |
| Birth date | 1899-01-09 |
| Death date | 1990-09-22 |
| Place of birth | Meriden (Conn.) |
| Place of death | West Hartford (Conn.) |
| Field of activity | Law--United States |
| Affiliation | United States. Court of Appeals (District of Columbia Circuit) United States. Congress. Senate Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) |
| Profession or occupation | Judges Senators |
| Found in | NUCMC data from University of Connecticut Library for Waugh, A.E. Papers, 1926-1970 (John Anthony Danaher; political correspondence) Biog. dir., U.S. Cong., 1989 (Danaher, John Anthony; b. 1899; lawyer, judge, and U.S. senator; of West Hartford, Conn.) OCLC, May 2, 2019 (access points: Danaher, John Anthony, 1899- ; Danaher, John Anthony, 1899-1990; Danaher, John A.; usage: John Anthony Danaher, John A. Danaher [predominant usage]) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, via WWW, viewed May 2, 2019: under Danaher, John Anthony (a Senator from Connecticut; born in Meriden, New Haven County, Conn., January 9, 1899; served as Republican Senator for Connecticut from 1939 to 1945; appointed by President Dwight Eisenhower as a circuit judge of U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; died September 22, 1990) Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed March 28, 2022 (Danaher, John Anthony, a Senator from Connecticut; born in Meriden, New Haven County, Conn., January 9, 1899; attended the local schools; during the First World War served in the Student's Army Training Corps at Yale College and in the Officers' Reserve Corps; graduated from Yale College in 1920; studied law at Yale Law School; admitted to the bar in 1922 and commenced practice in Hartford, Conn.; assistant United States attorney for the district of Connecticut 1922-1934; secretary of State of Connecticut 1933-1935; member of the State Board of Finance and Control 1933-1935; elected as a Republican in 1938 to the United States Senate and served from January 3, 1939, to January 3, 1945; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1944; resumed the practice of law in Hartford, Conn., and Washington, D.C.; appointed a circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, by President Dwight Eisenhower and took the oath of office November 20, 1953; assumed senior status in 1969 and served on a part-time basis in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit until his retirement in 1980; was a resident of West Hartford, Conn., until his death, September 22, 1990; interment at Sacred Heart Cemetery, Meriden, Conn.) |
| Associated language | eng |
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