Ronald A. Sarasin

Ronald Arthur Sarasin (born 31 December 1934 in Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts) is an American politician. Between 1973 and 1979 he represented the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ronald Sarasin attended the public schools in Connecticut and then studied until 1960 at the University of Connecticut. He then studied at the Law Faculty of the University until 1963 Jura. In the same year he was admitted to the bar. Sarasin had his education interrupted during the Korean War to serve from 1952 to 1956 in the U.S. Navy.

Between 1963 and 1966 he taught at New Haven College Jura. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1963 and 1972 he was a town councilor in Beacon Falls; 1968 to 1972 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Connecticut, where he was Deputy Group Head since 1970. In the years 1968, 1970, 1972 and 1974 he was a delegate to the regional party days of the Republicans in Connecticut. In 1976, Sarasin as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Kansas City in part, on the U.S. president Gerald Ford was nominated for re-election.

1972 Sarasin was in the fifth electoral district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat John S. Monagan on January 3, 1973. After two elections in 1974 and 1976, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1979 three consecutive legislative sessions. These were characterized among other things by the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal. In 1978, Sarasin gave up another run for the House of Representatives. Instead, he competed unsuccessfully for the office of the governor of Connecticut: He defeated the Democratic incumbent Ella T. Grasso significantly.

Since 2000, Sarasin President of the United States Capitol Historical Society.