Middletown is a city in Middlesex County,Connecticut,United States. Located along the Connecticut River,in the central part of the state,it is 16 miles south of Hartford. Middletown is the largest city in the Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region. In 1650,it was incorporated by English settlers as a town under its original Native American name,Mattabeseck,after the local Wangunk village of the same name. They were among many tribes along the Atlantic coast who spoke Algonquian languages. The colonists renamed the settlement in 1653.
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.
Sebastian N. Giuliano was the mayor of Middletown,Connecticut from 2005 until 2011. Giuliano,a Republican and Middletown native,defeated Democratic incumbent Domenique Thornton by 807 votes in the 2005 election and was reelected in 2007 to a second two-year term. He won the election again in 2009,defeating Democratic Councilman Daniel T. Drew and served his last term.
The Daily Campus,founded in 1896,is a student-run newspaper at the University of Connecticut. The Daily Campus has a circulation of 1,500 on weekdays during school term. Since its creation,the newspaper has undergone several name changes,having started as The Storrs Agricultural College Lookout,a monthly,when it published its first issue on May 11,1896. The name was changed to The Connecticut Campus in 1915,followed by The Connecticut Daily Campus,and then finally The Daily Campus in 1984. It began publishing five days a week during the academic year in 1952 and became a morning paper in 1955.
Thomas Coleman Foley is an American politician and businessman. He served as the United States Ambassador to Ireland from 2006 to 2009 and was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Governor of Connecticut in 2010 and 2014.
Matthew L. Lesser is an American politician who represents the 9th district in the Connecticut State Senate. First elected to the State House in 2008,Lesser was re-elected in 2010,2012,2014,and 2016. In 2018 he was elected as state senator for the 9th district,winning 57% of the vote.
The 2012 United States Senate election in Connecticut was held on November 6,2012,in conjunction with the 2012 U.S. presidential election,other elections to the United States Senate in other states,as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives,and various state and local elections. Primaries to elect Senate candidates from the Republican and Democratic parties were held on Tuesday,August 14,2012.
Christopher D. Coutu is an American Army National Guard officer,who also served as a three-term municipal and state elected leader.
The 2014 Connecticut gubernatorial election took place on November 4,2014,to elect the governor and lieutenant governor of Connecticut,concurrently with elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
This article contains lists of candidates associated with the 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries for the 2016 United States presidential election.
Erin Elizabeth Stewart is an American politician and the 40th Mayor of New Britain,Connecticut. Stewart is the daughter of the former Mayor of New Britain Tim Stewart,who served from 2003 to 2011. She was elected to her first term on November 5,2013,at the age of 26,to become the youngest mayor in New Britain's history and the city's second female mayor. Stewart was re-elected to a second term on November 3,2015,and a third term on November 7,2017.
Luke Aaron Bronin is an American politician and lawyer who was the 67th mayor of Hartford,Connecticut,serving from January 1,2016,to January 1,2024.
Mark D. Boughton is an American politician who was the longest-serving mayor in Danbury,Connecticut's history. He served ten consecutive terms as mayor,from 2001 to 2020. He was the Republican endorsed candidate for governor of Connecticut in 2018,but lost the primary election to Bob Stefanowski. In 2020,Governor Ned Lamont nominated Boughton to serve as commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Revenue Services.
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.
Robert Vincent Stefanowski is an American businessman and politician.
Quentin S. "Q" Williams was an American politician of the Democratic Party. He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives,representing the 100th district in Middlesex County from 2019 until his death in 2023.
The 2018 Connecticut Senate election was held on November 6,2018,concurrently with the elections for the Connecticut House of Representatives,to elect members to the Connecticut General Assembly. All 36 seats in the Connecticut Senate were up for election. The election resulted in Democrats expanding control in both chambers of the Connecticut General Assembly,ending the split control in the Senate,that had been in place since the 2016 elections. Primary elections were held on August 14,2018.
Since the 1870s,mayoral elections have been held every two years to elect the mayor of New Haven,Connecticut.
