Raymond E. Baldwin

Raymond Earl Baldwin ( born August 31, 1893 in Rye, Westchester County, New York, † October 4, 1986 in Greenwich, Connecticut ) was an American politician of the Republican Party.

When Raymond Baldwin was still a child, his parents moved with him to Connecticut, where he attended the public school in Middletown. He graduated in 1916 from Wesleyan University and began to study law at Yale University. This he interrupted to fight for the U.S. Navy in the First World War. After his time at the military school Initially he held the rank of Ensign; in September 1918 he was promoted to Lieutenant. In 1919, Baldwin his farewell and returned to Yale, where he graduated in 1921. In the same year he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in New Haven and Bridgeport.

In 1927 he became prosecutor at the Municipal Court of Stratford, which he remained until 1930; 1931 to 1933, he worked as a judge. During the same period he was also politically active for the first time: as a member of the House of Connecticut. In 1933, he led there to the Republican majority faction. From 1933 to 1938 Baldwin again worked as a lawyer; during which he held 1935-1937 from the Office of the City Council Chairman in Stratford.

1938 made ​​him the Republican Party as a candidate for election as Governor. Baldwin won against the Democratic incumbent Wilbur Lucius Cross and served two years; the re-election in 1940, although he lost against Robert A. Hurley, but two years later he returned - after a victory over Hurley - the governorship back, which he held by re-election until 1946. On 25 December 1946 he resigned, after he had been elected to replace the late Francis T. Maloney in the U.S. Senate. There he laid down his mandate ultimately on 16 December 1949.

Raymond Baldwin went back to the judiciary and was an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of Appeal of Connecticut. In 1959, he became Chairman in 1963, he went into retirement. His last public office he served in 1965 as Chairman of the Constitutional Convention of Connecticut, before he retired into private life.