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.
Edward Moore Kennedy Jr. is an American lawyer and politician. He is a partner at Epstein Becker &Green,a firm headquartered in New York City,and previously represented Connecticut's 12th State Senate district in the Connecticut State Senate from 2015 to 2019. He is a son of United States Senate member Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts and a nephew of President John F. Kennedy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
The Working Families Party (WFP) is a progressive minor political party in the United States,founded in New York in 1998. There are active chapters in California,Colorado,Connecticut,Delaware,the District of Columbia,Georgia,Illinois,Maryland,Nevada,New Jersey,New Mexico,New York,Ohio,Oregon,Pennsylvania,Rhode Island,Texas,West Virginia,and Wisconsin.
The 2006 Connecticut gubernatorial election occurred on November 7,2006. Incumbent Republican Jodi Rell became governor when John G. Rowland resigned on corruption charges in 2004. Rell had an approval rating of 70% as of October 19,2006,and polls showed her leading the Democratic nominee,New Haven mayor John DeStefano by a near 30-point margin. As expected,she won the election to a full term in a landslide. DeStefano defeated Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy in the Connecticut Democratic gubernatorial primary on August 8. As of 2024,this is the last time a Republican and woman was elected Governor of Connecticut,and the last time any gubernatorial candidate won every county in the state to date.
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 weekday paper services the main campus of UConn and Storrs,Connecticut community with circulation during the school term.
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. A member of the Democratic Party,he was first elected to the State House in 2008,and re-elected in 2010,2012,2014,and 2016. He won election to the state Senate from the 9th district in 2018,and was reelected in 2020 and 2022. Lesser unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination for Connecticut Secretary of the State in 2022.
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 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.
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.
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.
