51 Notable alumni of
Fairfield University
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Fairfield University is 1056th in the world, 386th in North America, and 363rd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 51 notable alumni from Fairfield University sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Kevin Nealon
- Occupations
- actorfilm actorscreenwritertelevision actorvoice actor
- Biography
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Kevin Nealon is an American comedian and actor. He has earned a Primetime Emmy Award nomination and two Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
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Ron Palillo
- Occupations
- voice actorscreenwriterteacherfilm actorstage actor
- Biography
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Ronald Gabriel Palillo was an American actor and teacher. He was best known for his role as the endearingly dim-witted character Arnold Horshack on the ABC sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979).
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Charles Dolan
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Charles Francis Dolan was an American billionaire businessman, best known as founder of Cablevision and HBO. Today, the Dolan family controls Madison Square Garden Sports, MSG Networks, Madison Square Garden Entertainment, Madison Square Garden, the Sphere, Radio City Music Hall, BBC America, and AMC Networks. As of December 2024, his net worth was estimated at US$5.4 billion.
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Paul Marcarelli
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- screenwriteractorvoice actor
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Paul Marcarelli is an American actor. He is best known for being the ubiquitous "Test Man" character in commercials ("Can you hear me now?") for Verizon Wireless from 2002 to 2011. He appeared in all of his Verizon commercials wearing a gray Verizon jacket and his own horn-rimmed glasses.
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Buddy Cianci
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Vincent Albert "Buddy" Cianci Jr. was an American politician, attorney, radio talk show host, and political commentator who served as the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island from 1975 to 1984 and again from 1991 to 2002. Cianci was the longest-serving mayor of Providence, having held office for over 21 years.
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Nikki Stanton
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Nicole Leslie Stanton is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Vancouver Rise FC of the Northern Super League.
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Laith Ashley
- Occupations
- modelLGBTQ rights activistactor
- Biography
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Laith Ashley De La Cruz is an American model, actor, activist, singer-songwriter and entertainer of Dominican descent.
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Neil Peng
- Occupations
- actorscreenwriterfilm directorwriterjournalist
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Neil Peng is a Taiwanese screenwriter and political activist.
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John L. Flannery
- Occupations
- chief executive officer
- Biography
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John L. Flannery is an American business executive. He succeeded Jeff Immelt as the eleventh CEO and tenth chairman of General Electric, and was CEO from August 2017 until October 2018. Prior to ascending to the CEO role, Flannery held leadership roles inside GE for nearly 30 years, heading GE Healthcare, GE India and other business units.
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C. Frank Figliuzzi
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- spyadvisercivil servant
- Biography
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Cesare Frank Figliuzzi, Jr. is an American former law enforcement agent and author, who served as assistant director for counterintelligence at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Figliuzzi was previously the special agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Cleveland Division, which includes all of northern Ohio, and the major cities of Cleveland, Toledo, Youngstown, Akron, and Canton.
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Bob Stefanowski
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Robert Vincent Stefanowski is an American businessman and politician.
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Liz Wahl
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- journalistcorrespondent
- Biography
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Liz Wahl is an American journalist. She was a correspondent for the Russian government-sponsored RT television network from 2011 to 2014 but left the network following a harshly critical on-air resignation that went viral.
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Donatella Arpaia
- Occupations
- restaurateur
- Biography
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Donatella Arpaia Stewart is an American restaurateur and a television personality who appears on The Food Network. Arpaia is a regular judge on The Food Network's Iron Chef America and The Next Iron Chef. She has also appeared on The Isaac Mizrahi Show, The Martha Stewart Show, The Tony Danza Show, The Today Show and iVillage.
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Pete Gillen
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Peter Joseph Gillen is an American former college basketball head coach of the Division I Providence Friars and Virginia Cavaliers and is a member of the New York City Basketball Hall of Fame. Gillen is currently a college basketball analyst with the CBS Sports Network.
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Githa Hariharan
- Occupations
- writerjournalistnovelist
- Biography
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Githa Hariharan is an Indian writer and editor based in New Delhi. Her first novel, The Thousand Faces of Night, won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the best first novel in 1993. Her other works include the short story collection The Art of Dying (1993), the novels The Ghosts of Vasu Master (1994), When Dreams Travel (1999), In Times of Siege (2003), Fugitive Histories (2009) and I Have Become the Tide (2019), and a collection of essays entitled Almost Home: Cities and Other Places (2014).
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J. Michael Farren
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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John Michael Farren is a former American lawyer who served as Deputy White House Counsel in the Office of Counsel to the President under the 43rd President of the United States George W. Bush from 2007 to 2009. Farren also served as Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade at the United States Department of Commerce and head of the International Trade Administration under the 41st President of the United States George H. W. Bush from 1989 to 1992. He is currently serving a 15-year jail sentence for the attempted murder of his then-wife.
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Derek Needham
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Derek Needham is an American-born naturalized Montenegrin professional basketball player for Beşiktaş Emlakjet of the Basketbol Süper Ligi (BSL). Standing at 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m), he plays the point guard position. Needham played college basketball for Fairfield University where he was named to the CollegeInsider.com Freshman All-America team in 2010 and was All-MAAC for four straight years between 2010 and 2013. Since 2017, Needham represents the senior Montenegrin national basketball team in international competitions.
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Daniel C. Burbank
- Occupations
- astronautmilitary officerengineer
- Biography
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Daniel Christopher Burbank is a retired American astronaut and a veteran of two Space Shuttle missions. Burbank, a Captain in the United States Coast Guard, is the second Coast Guard astronaut after Bruce Melnick.
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Thomas Spota
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Thomas J. Spota III is a former American attorney and politician, who served as the District Attorney of Suffolk County, New York, serving from 2002 to late 2017, but was disbarred on June 10, 2020. Spota resigned November 10, 2017, after he was indicted on federal charges of obstruction of justice in the investigation of Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke. Spota was subsequently found guilty and sentenced to five years in federal prison and fined $100,000.
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Peter J. Pronovost
- Occupations
- physician
- Biography
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Peter J. Pronovost is Chief Quality and Transformation Officer at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, the main affiliate of the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
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Ronan Ryan
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Ronan Ryan is an Irish-American businessperson. He is the president of IEX, the Investor's Exchange, and an electronic trading expert. As a founding member of IEX, Ryan was a central character featured in Michael Lewis’ Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt. Irish America magazine named Ryan to its 2014 and 2015 Wall Street 50 list.
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Brian Monahan
- Enrolled in Fairfield University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- military physician
- Biography
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Brian Patrick Monahan is the Attending Physician of the United States Congress and the United States Supreme Court and holds the rank of rear admiral in the United States Navy. Monahan was nominated to the position and rank by United States President Barack Obama in January 2009. He previously served as the director of hematology and medical oncology at the National Naval Medical Center. He is a Master of The American College of Physicians and a Member of the Academy of Medicine.
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E. Gerald Corrigan
- Enrolled in Fairfield University
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- bankereconomist
- Biography
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Edward Gerald Corrigan was an American banker who was the seventh President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Vice-Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee. Corrigan served as a partner and managing director in the Office of the Chairman at Goldman Sachs and was appointed chairman of GS Bank USA, the bank holding company of Goldman Sachs, in September 2008 until retiring in 2016. He was also a member of the Group of Thirty, an influential international body of leading financiers and academics.
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Tim O'Toole
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Tim O'Toole is an American college basketball coach, currently the associate head coach at Pittsburgh. He was previously the tenth head coach of the Fairfield Stags men's basketball team. He also worked in the media as an ESPN college basketball analyst and was the color analyst for St. John's University's radio broadcasts with John Minko.
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Arthur Kenney
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Arthur Kenney is a retired American professional basketball player. He played at the power forward and center positions, and was nicknamed "The Great Red".
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Martin Looney
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Martin M. Looney is an American politician. Looney, a Democrat, has been a state senator from Connecticut since 1993. From 2003 to 2014, Looney served as Majority Leader of the Senate; in 2015 he became President Pro Tempore of the Senate.
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Tyler Nelson
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Tyler Nelson is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the Fairfield Stags.
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Brendan Suhr
- Occupations
- basketball coach
- Biography
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Brendan Ahearn Suhr is an American former basketball coach.
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Robert J. Wicks
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Robert J. Wicks is a clinical psychologist and writer about the intersection of spirituality and psychology. Wicks is a speaker, therapist, and spiritual guide who has taught at universities and professional schools of psychology, medicine, nursing, theology, and social work for more than thirty years. He is a Professor Emeritus at Loyola University Maryland.
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Bob Drury
- Occupations
- journalistopinion journalist
- Biography
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Bob Drury is an American writer and journalist. He has contributed to a variety of newspapers, magazines, and other publications. He is the author of over twelve non-fiction books. Currently, he resides in Manasquan, New Jersey.
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Susan King
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Susan King is an American journalist and was the Dean and John Thomas Kerr Distinguished Professor at the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 2012 to 2021.
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Steve Shannon
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Stephen Charles "Steve" Shannon is an American attorney and Circuit Court Judge in the 19th Judicial Circuit of Virginia. From 2004 to 2009, Shannon represented Virginia's 35th District in the Virginia House of Delegates. He was the 2009 Democratic nominee for Attorney General of Virginia. He was defeated by his opponent, Republican Ken Cuccinelli.
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Caitlin O'Connell-Rodwell
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- physicianbiologistecologistotolaryngologist
- Biography
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Caitlin Elizabeth O'Connell-Rodwell is an American conservation biologist and author. She is an instructor at Harvard Medical School, scientific consultant, co-founder and chief executive officer of Utopia Scientific, and an expert on elephants. Her elephant research was the subject of the Elephant King, an award-winning Smithsonian Channel documentary.
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Peter Guarasci
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Peter Guarasci is a Canadian former professional basketball player. Having played in Serie A and the Basketball Bundesliga, he currently plays in the Lega2 in Italy and is a former prominent member of the Canadian national men's basketball team.
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Rebecca Miriam Cunningham
- Years
- 1970-.. (age 55)
- Occupations
- writerphysicianacademic
- Biography
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Rebecca Miriam Cunningham is an American emergency physician, researcher, and university administrator. She is the 18th and current president of the University of Minnesota.
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Joseph Russoniello
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Joseph P. Russoniello is an American attorney who served two terms as the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of California. Russoniello served his first term from 1982 to 1990 and his second term from 2008 to 2010.
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Rosa Rebimbas
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Rosa C. Rebimbas is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 2009 to 2023, representing the 70th District around Naugatuck just south of Waterbury. She is the owner/sole proprietor of The Law Offices of Rosa C. Rebimbas, a general law firm in Naugatuck, Connecticut.
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Tricia Fabbri
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Tricia Fabbri is an American basketball coach who is currently the women's basketball head coach at Quinnipiac University.
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Jorge E. Pérez-Díaz
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Jorge E. Pérez-Díaz served as Secretary of Justice of Puerto Rico from 1991 to 1992. He was appointed by former Governor Rafael Hernández Colón. Prior to becoming the Secretary of Justice, Pérez-Díaz served as Prosecutor General of Puerto Rico from 1989 to 1991. He is currently Major League Baseball's Senior Vice President and Special Counsel, Litigation and International Affairs.
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Peter Gibson
- Occupations
- screenwriteractortelevision producer
- Biography
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Peter Gibson is an American writer.
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Donna Savarese
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Donna Savarese is two-time Emmy Award-winning former journalist. Savarese is a graduate of Fairfield University with a bachelor of arts degree in political science.
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Moses A. McCoid
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- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Moses Ayers McCoid was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War and a three-term Republican U.S. Representative from Iowa's 1st congressional district in southeastern Iowa.
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G. Simon Harak
- Occupations
- peace activist
- Biography
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G. Simon Harak SJ was an American author, peace activist and professor of theology and Director of the Center for Peacemaking at Marquette University.
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Sean Connelly
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Sean Connelly is an American attorney and former judge on the Colorado Court of Appeals. He is a former member of the U.S. Department of Justice trial team and the lead appellate prosecutor in the Oklahoma City bombing cases. He was appointed by then Colorado Governor Bill Ritter to the Colorado Court of Appeals in 2008 and did not seek retention of his appointment in 2011 and returned to private practice.
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Gregory J. Martin
- Biography
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Gregory J. Martin is an American medical doctor and captain in the United States Navy. Martin is a recognized expert in the fields of infectious diseases and bioterrorism.
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Maurice Barrow
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Maurice Barrow is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for Fairfield University before playing professionally in Austria and Australia.
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Stephen Buoniconti
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Stephen J. Buoniconti is an American politician who represented the Hampden Districfrom the Massachusetts Senate from the year 2005 to 2011 and the 6th Hampden District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2001 to 2005.
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Bryan Harkin
- Occupations
- association football playerassociation football manager
- Biography
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Bryan Harkin is a Northern Irish soccer player who played for Crystal Palace Baltimore in the USSF Second Division.
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Thomas J. Josefiak
- Born in
- United States
- Occupations
- lawyer
- Biography
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Thomas J. Josefiak is an American lawyer who was Chief Counsel of Republican National Committee (RNC) and Chairman of the Federal Election Commission (FEC) during the 1988 U.S. presidential election. Josefiak is currently a partner with the law firm of HoltzmanVogelJosefiak PLLC in Washington, D.C.
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J. Edward Caldwell
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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James Edward Caldwell was an American politician from the state of Connecticut. He served in the Connecticut State Senate from 1958 to 1974, and as Connecticut State Comptroller from 1974 to 1991, the longest term of any comptroller in the state's history.
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Brian J. Flaherty
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Brian J. Flaherty is a Republican politician from Watertown, Connecticut. Flaherty served eight terms as State Representative for the 68th Assembly District from 1988 to 2005 and held the position of Deputy Minority Leader in the Connecticut House of Representatives for 10 years.
