Albert W. Cretella

Albert William Cretella ( born April 22, 1897 in New Haven, Connecticut, † May 24, 1979 ) was an American politician. Between 1953 and 1959 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Albert Cretella attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1917, the Yale University. At the same university he studied law, but he interrupted in June 1918 to enter during the First World War in the U.S. Navy. At the time of the Armistice in November 1918 Cretella attended a military school. Later he continued his law studies at Yale. After his made ​​in 1921 admitted to the bar he began in New Haven to work in his new profession. In 1926 he moved to North Haven. Between 1931 and 1970, was Cretella, with a break in the years 1946 and 1947, legal adviser of the city. From 1931 to 1945 he worked as a prosecutor.

Cretella was a member of the Republican Party. From 1947 to 1952 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Connecticut. In the congressional elections of 1952, he was elected in the third district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on January 3, 1953, the successor to the Democrat John A. McGuire, whom he had defeated in the election. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1959 three legislative periods. In the elections of 1958 he was defeated by Democrat Robert Giaimo, against whom he ran unsuccessfully in 1960.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Albert Cretella again worked as a lawyer. He died in May 1979 in New Haven.