Barbara B. Kennelly

Barbara Bailey Kennelly (* July 10, 1936 in Hartford, Connecticut) is an American politician. Between 1982 and 1999, she represented the first electoral district of the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Barbara Kennelly was born in 1936 as Barbara Ann Bailey. She is the daughter of John Moran Bailey, a longtime leader of the Democrats in Connecticut, who is also the Democratic National Committee executive board from 1961 to 1968. She attended the Joseph Cathedral School and then until 1954, the Mount St. Joseph Academy in Hartford. Then she continued her studies until 1958 at Trinity College in Washington DC and then to 1959 at Harvard University, where she studied Business Administration ( Business Administration). She completed her training in 1971 at Trinity College in Hartford.

Politically, it was like her father, a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1975 and 1979 she sat on the city council of Hartford; 1979 to 1982, she served as Secretary of State executive official in the state government of Connecticut. After the death of Congressman William R. Cotter, she was elected as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington when made ​​necessary by-election. There it began on January 12, 1982, to their new mandate. After eight elections could remain until January 3, 1999 at the Congress.

In 1998 they gave up another candidacy. Instead, she applied unsuccessfully for the post of Governor of Connecticut; it was subject to Republican incumbent John G. Rowland. Since 2002 she has been president of the committee for the preservation of the social security system and the health insurance system Medicare. She is also a board member of the International Foundation for Electoral Systems, which operates electoral assistance in many countries.

Barbara Kennelly was married to the late lawyer James J. Kennelly, the Member of Parliament and President of the House of Connecticut was.