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Abraham Ribicoff

Abraham A. Ribicoff
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United States Senator
from Connecticut
In office
January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1981
Preceded by Prescott Bush
Succeeded by Christopher Dodd
4th United States Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
In office
January 21, 1961 – July 13, 1962
President John F. Kennedy
Preceded by Arthur Flemming
Succeeded by Anthony J. Celebrezze
80th Governor of Connecticut
In office
January 5, 1955 – January 21, 1961
Lieutenant Charles W. Jewett
John Dempsey
Preceded by John Davis Lodge
Succeeded by John Dempsey
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Connecticut's 1st district
In office
January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1953
Preceded by William J. Miller
Succeeded by Thomas J. Dodd
Member of the Connecticut state legislature
In office
1938–1942
Personal details
Born Abraham Alexander Ribicoff
(1910-04-09)April 9, 1910
New Britain, Connecticut, U.S.
Died February 22, 1998(1998-02-22) (aged 87)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality American
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Ruth Ribicoff (desc.)
Lois Ribicoff
Religion Judaism

Abraham Alexander Ribicoff (April 9, 1910 – February 22, 1998) was an American Democratic Party politician. He served in the United States Congress, as the 80th Governor of Connecticut and as President John F. Kennedy's Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. He was Connecticut's first and to date only Jewish governor.

Born in New Britain, Connecticut to Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants from Poland, Abraham A. Ribicoff, a factory worker, and Rose Sable Ribicoff, he attended local public schools. His relatively poor parents valued education and insisted that all his earnings from part-time boyhood jobs go toward his future schooling. After high school, he worked for a year at a nearby factory of the G. E. Prentice Company in order to earn additional funds for college. He enrolled at New York University in 1928, then transferred to the University of Chicago after the Prentice Company made him the Chicago office manager. While in Chicago, Ribicoff coped with school and work schedules and was permitted to enter the university's law school before finishing his undergraduate degree. Still a student, he married Ruth Siegel on 28 June 1931; they would have two children. Ribicoff served as editor of the University of Chicago Law Review in his third year and received a J.D. cum laude in 1933, being admitted to the Connecticut bar the same year. After practicing law in the office of a Hartford lawyer, he set up his own practice, first in Kensington and later in Hartford.


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