John A. Danaher

John Anthony Danaher ( born January 9, 1899 in Meriden, Connecticut, † September 22, 1990 in West Hartford, Connecticut ) was an American politician of the Republican Party.

Life

Danaher studied post-school at Yale University, where he joined the Student's Army Training Corps belonged during the First World War; At this time he also served in the officers' reserve corps. In 1920 he graduated from Yale and was accepted after a successful law degree in 1922 in the Bar Association. He then worked as a lawyer in Hartford.

Public offices

1922 John Danaher was appointed Deputy United States Attorney for the District Court of Connecticut, where he stayed until 1934. From 1933 to 1935 he was a member of the state financial and supervisory authority; During the same period, he served as Secretary of State in the state government of Connecticut.

In the election to the U.S. Senate in 1938, he defeated the Democratic incumbent Augustine Lonergan. After six years in office between January 1939 and January 3, 1945 3 he retired after misguided re-election to the Senate. Subsequently, he worked again as a lawyer in Hartford and Washington.

On November 20, 1953 Danaher put his oath of office as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the District Court of the District of Columbia; U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower had appointed him to that post. After he had in 1969 attained the age of 70 years, he worked part-time as a judge on the Court of Appeals for the second judicial district, until he retired in 1980. He died at the age of 91 in his home in West Hartford.