(I)NTERVIEW: Richard Blumenthal

Richard Blumenthal Biography

This (I)NTERVIEW is from 5/29/2009

First elected in 1990, Richard Blumenthal is serving an unprecedented fifth term as Attorney General. Blumenthal’s aggressive law enforcement for consumer protection, environmental stewardship, labor rights and personal privacy, has helped reshape the role of state attorneys general nationwide -- and recover hundreds of millions of dollars for Connecticut taxpayers and consumers each year. Blumenthal previously served as administrative assistant to U.S. Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff, aide to former U.S. Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan when Moynihan was Assistant to the President of the United States, and law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun. He was U.S. Attorney for Connecticut, the state’s chief federal prosecutor, from 1977 to 1981 -- prosecuting drug traffickers, organized and white collar crime, civil rights violators, consumer fraud and polluters. He served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1984 to 1987, and then the State Senate from 1987 to 1990. Blumenthal graduated from Harvard College (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude), and Yale Law School, where he was editor of the Yale Law Journal. Attorney General Blumenthal lives in Greenwich with his wife, Cynthia, and their four children. The Attorney General can be reached via e-mail at Attorney.General@po.state.ct.us, or constituents may view the Attorney General's Web page.

Courtesy of http://www.ct.gov/ag/cwp/view.asp?A=2178&Q=295440

Attorney General Blumenthal announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate on January 7th, following the news that U.S. Senator Chris Dodd, Connecticut's longest serving Senator would not seek re-election. For more about these developments, listen to Where We Live at http://www.cpbn.org/program/where-we-live/episode/wwl-dodd-out and The Colin McEnroe show at http://www.cpbn.org/program/colin-mcenroe-show/episode/cms-chris-dodd

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