Joseph M. Suggs Jr. | |
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Connecticut State Treasurer | |
In office March 3, 1993 –1995 | |
Governor | Lowell Weicker |
Preceded by | Francisco L. Borges |
Succeeded by | Christopher Burnham |
Mayor of Bloomfield,Connecticut | |
In office 1989–1993 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Hartford,Connecticut,US | August 1,1940
Political party | Democratic Party |
Residence | Bloomfield,Connecticut |
Alma mater | University of Hartford (BS) |
Occupation | Politician |
Joseph M. Suggs Jr. (born August 1,1940) [1] is an American politician who served as Connecticut State Treasurer from 1993 to 1995. [2]
Suggs was appointed to the office of state treasurer by the Connecticut General Assembly to complete the term of Francisco L. Borges,who had resigned to accept a finance job in the private sector. Suggs lost the 1994 general election for treasurer to Republican state representative Christopher Burnham. A Democrat,Suggs had served as mayor of Bloomfield,Connecticut,from 1989 to 1993. [3] He was the town's first African American mayor and the only Black mayor of a suburban Connecticut town at the time. [4] In 1998,Suggs sought the Democratic nomination for Connecticut's 1st congressional district,losing the primary to John B. Larson. [5] In 2018,he narrowly lost a special election for the Connecticut House of Representatives. [6]
Suggs worked 27 years as a laboratory supervisor for Monsanto,retiring in 1993. He supported the development of PET plastic bottles now widely used in the beverage industry. [3] Born in Hartford and raised in Coventry,he served in the US Air Force and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Hartford in 1978. [1] He has served on the boards of the University of Hartford and Saint Francis Hospital and as co-chair of the Council of Institutional Investors. He was recognized twice by the NAACP as one of the 100 Most Influential Blacks of Connecticut. He is currently a business consultant. [7] [3]
Suggs is a widower (his wife Mary died in 1989) with three children:Ronald,Rosemary,and Felicia. [4]
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