Robert Giaimo

Robert Nicholas Giaimo (born 15 October 1919 in New Haven, Connecticut, † 24 May, 2006 Arlington, Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1959 and 1981 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Giaimo attended the public schools in North Haven. Then he studied until 1941 at Fordham College in New York City and then to 1943 at the University of Connecticut. Between 1943 and 1946 he served during World War II in the U.S. Army. After studying law and its made ​​in 1947 admitted to the bar he began in New Haven to work in his new profession. Between 1949 and 1955, Giaimo was a member of the school board of the town of North Haven. From 1952 to 1954 he was an administrative employee at the local probate court. Thereafter, he served 1955-1958 as Chairman of the Appeals Committee ( Personnel Appeal Board ) of the State of Connecticut. In North Haven, he was also a member of the municipal council.

Giaimo was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1956, he ran unsuccessfully for the first time for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. In the congressional elections of 1958, he was then in the third district of Connecticut in the House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on January 3, 1959, the succession of Republican Albert W. Cretella, whom he had beaten in the election. After ten re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1981 eleven legislative periods. From 1977 to 1981 he was chairman of the Budget Committee. During his time in Congress were, among others, the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement and the Watergate scandal. In 1980 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, Robert Giaimo withdrew from politics. He died in May 2006 in Arlington, and was buried in North Haven.