Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Rhode Island to the east,Massachusetts to the north,New York to the west,and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital is Hartford,and its most populous city is Bridgeport. Connecticut lies between the major hubs of New York City and Boston along the Northeast Corridor,where the New York-Newark Combined Statistical Area,which includes four of Connecticut's seven largest cities,extends into the southwestern part of the state. Connecticut is the third-smallest state by area after Rhode Island and Delaware,and the 29th most populous with slightly more than 3.6 million residents as of 2020,ranking it fourth among the most densely populated U.S. states.
The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university system with its main campus in Storrs,Connecticut,United States. It was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School,named after two benefactors. In 1893,the school became a public land grant college,then took its current name in 1939. Over the following decade,social work,nursing,and graduate programs were established. During the 1960s,UConn Health was established for new medical and dental schools. UConn is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.
Since Connecticut became a U.S. state in 1788,it has sent congressional delegations to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives,beginning with the 1st United States Congress in 1789. Each state elects two senators to serve for six years in general elections,with their re-election staggered. Prior to the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment in 1913,senators were elected by the Connecticut General Assembly. Each state elects varying numbers of members of the House,depending on population,to two-year terms. Connecticut has sent five members to the House in each congressional delegation since the 2000 United States Census.
Susan Bysiewicz is an American politician and attorney who has served as the 109th lieutenant governor of Connecticut since 2019. She previously served as the 72nd secretary of the state of Connecticut from 1999 to 2011 and a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1993 to 1999.
Edward Miner Lamont Jr. is an American businessman and politician serving since January 2019 as the 89th governor of Connecticut. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as a Greenwich selectman from 1987 to 1989 and was the party's nominee for the United States Senate in 2006,losing to incumbent Joe Lieberman.
Dannel Patrick Malloy is an American politician who served as the 88th governor of Connecticut from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,he chaired the Democratic Governors Association from 2016 to 2017. In July 2019,he began his tenure as the Chancellor of the University of Maine System.
The 2006 United States Senate election in Connecticut was held November 7,2006. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Joe Lieberman won his fourth and final term in the Senate,under the Connecticut for Lieberman party banner.
New London Ledge Lighthouse is a lighthouse on the Thames River in the U.S. state of Connecticut,at the mouth of New London Harbor. It was built in 1909 in the Second Empire style and was automated in 1987. In 1990,it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. The lighthouse is owned and maintained by the New London Maritime Society as part of the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act program.
New London Union Station is a railroad station on the Northeast Corridor located in downtown New London,Connecticut,United States. Union Station is a station stop for most Amtrak Northeast Regional trains and all CT Rail Shore Line East commuter rail trains,making it the primary railroad station in southeastern Connecticut. It serves as the centerpiece of the Regional Intermodal Transit Center,with connections to local and intercity buses as well as ferries to Long Island and Fishers Island,New York,and Block Island,Rhode Island. The station has one side platform and one island platform serving the two-track Northeast Corridor;the latter platform also serves a siding track that connects to the New England Central Railroad mainline.
The 2010 Connecticut gubernatorial election took place on November 2,2010,to elect the 88th Governor of Connecticut. Incumbent Republican Governor Jodi Rell had announced in a press conference in Hartford on November 9,2009,that she would not seek re-election in 2010. The sites Cook Political Report and CQ Politics both rated the election as a toss-up. This was the first open seat gubernatorial election in the state since 1994. As of 2024,this is the last time the Governor's office in Connecticut changed partisan control.
The 39th Connecticut House of Representatives district elects one member of the Connecticut House of Representatives. Its current representative is Democrat Anthony Nolan. The district consists of part of the city of New London,which is divided between the 39th and 40th districts.
Henri Martin is a Republican member of the Connecticut State Senate. First elected to the Senate in 2014,he has represented Connecticut's 31st State Senate district since 2015.
The 2018 Connecticut gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the next governor and lieutenant governor of Connecticut,concurrently with the election of Connecticut's Class I U.S. Senate seat,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states,elections to the United States House of Representatives,and various state and local elections. This race's Democratic margin of victory was the closest to the national average of 3.1 points.
Jahana Hayes is an American educator and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Connecticut's 5th congressional district since 2019. The district,once represented by U.S. Senator Chris Murphy,comprises much of the state's northwestern portion,including New Britain,Danbury,and Waterbury. A member of the Democratic Party,Hayes is the first Black woman and Black Democrat to represent Connecticut in Congress.
Miguel Angel Cardona is an American educator and is currently serving as the twelfth United States secretary of education under President Joe Biden since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party,he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate by a vote of 64–33 on March 1,2021. Cardona previously served as commissioner of the Connecticut State Department of Education from 2019 to 2021.
The first confirmed case of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. state of Connecticut was confirmed on March 8,although there had previously been multiple people suspected of having COVID-19,all of which eventually tested negative. As of January 19,2022,there were 599,028 confirmed cases,68,202 suspected cases,and 9,683 COVID-associated deaths in the state.
Anne Dauphinais is an American politician. She is a Republican currently serving Connecticut House of Representatives District 44,comprising the towns of Killingly,Plainfield,and Sterling. Dauphinais grew up in Killingly and graduated from the Northern Maine Vocational Technical Institute and from Eastern Connecticut State University. She worked in nursing,sales,and for the Connecticut Department of Correction before being elected to the House in 2016,2018 and 2020. Beginning in 2019,Dauphinais was a prominent leader opposing vaccine legislation in Connecticut and later protesting public safety measures put in place to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The 2022 Connecticut gubernatorial election took place on November 8,2022,to elect the governor of Connecticut. Incumbent Democratic governor Ned Lamont ran for re-election to a second term in office. The race simultaneously took place with the election to the state's Class III Senate seat. This election featured a rematch of the previous 2018 gubernatorial election,pitting Lamont against Republican Bob Stefanowski,whom he previously defeated by 3.2% of the vote. This time Lamont won re-election by a wider margin,becoming the first Democrat to win a gubernatorial election by more than 5 points in the state since 1986.
The 2024 United States presidential election in Connecticut was held on Tuesday,November 5,2024,as part of the 2024 United States elections in which all 50 states plus the District of Columbia will participate. Connecticut voters chose electors to represent them in the Electoral College via a popular vote. The state of Connecticut has seven electoral votes in the Electoral College,following reapportionment due to the 2020 United States census in which the state neither gained nor lost a seat.
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