Toby Moffett

Anthony John " Toby " Moffett ( born August 18, 1944 in Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts) is an American politician. Between 1975 and 1983 he represented the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Toby Moffett attended elementary school and then high school in Suffield (Connecticut). Then he studied until 1966 at Syracuse University in New York. This was followed in the years 1963 and 1964 studying in Florence at. Moffett finished his studies in 1968 at Boston College.

Between 1969 and 1970, Moffett was Head of Department in the Federal Ministry of Education. From 1970 to 1971 he was a staff member on the staff of U.S. Senator Walter Mondale. Between 1971 and 1974 Moffett served as director of the Connecticut Citizen Action Group. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1974 he was in the sixth constituency of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Ella T. Grasso on January 3, 1975. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3rd, 1983 four related legislative periods.

For the elections of 1982 Moffett gave up another run for the House of Representatives. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate. After that, he was between 1986 and 1989 Newscaster a television station in Hartford. In 1990 he ran unsuccessfully for a return to Congress. Today has been a consultant Toby Moffett in Washington.