Joseph E. Talbot

Joseph Edward Talbot ( born March 18, 1901 in Naugatuck, Connecticut, † April 30, 1966 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1942 and 1947 he represented the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joseph Talbot attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1922, Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). After a subsequent study at the Law School of Yale University and his made ​​in 1925 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Naugatuck and Waterbury. Between 1928 and 1933 he worked as a prosecutor in Naugatuck; 1935 to 1937, he worked as a judge.

Talbot was a member of the Republican Party. From 1939 to 1941 he was Minister of Finance of the State of Connecticut. In the years 1941 and 1942, he was commissioner for workers compensation ( Workmen's Compensation Commissioner) for the fifth district of Connecticut. Following the resignation of Congressman J. Joseph Smith in November 1941 Talbot was selected in the fifth constituency of Connecticut as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. After he was confirmed in each case in its mandate at the regular elections of 1942 and 1944, he was able to remain between 20 January 1942 and January 3, 1947 in Congress. This period was largely determined by the events of the Second World War.

1946 Talbot waived on another candidate for the House of Representatives. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the upcoming gubernatorial elections in Connecticut. In 1950 Talbot equally unsuccessful candidate for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Since April 1953 until his death he was a member of the Federal Customs Commission. Between 1953 and 1959 he was the Vice President and since 1959 he served as its president. Since 1959, Talbot was also Chairman of the Committee on Reciprocity Information, a committee dealing with the exchange of information between the various federal ministries, especially in the field of tax and customs policy.

Joseph Talbot died on 30 April 1966 in the German capital Washington and was buried in his hometown of Naugatuck.

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