T. Emmet Clarie

Thomas Emmet Clarie (January 1, 1913–September 24, 1997) was an American lawyer, politician, and later federal judge from the state of Connecticut. Clarie served in the Connecticut General Assembly before his appointment to the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. He sat on the bench from 1961 until his death in 1997.

Thomas Emmet Clarie was born on January 1, 1913, in Killingly, Connecticut, near the border with Rhode Island. His father, Thomas C. Clarie, was a building contractor and stonemason; his mother was Kathryn Burns Clarie.

He received a Ph.B. from Providence College in 1933 and an LL.B. from Hartford College of Law (now the University of Connecticut School of Law) in 1938.

Claire was a member of the Connecticut General Assembly from 1937 to 1943, and a Democratic floor leader from 1939 to 1943. Claire was first elected to the Assembly the year before he graduated from law school.

He engaged in the private practice of law in Danielson, Connecticut from 1940 to 1961. He served as a prosecutor for the Killingly town court in Danielson in 1951, as assistant to statute revision commissioner for the state of Connecticut in 1945, as a clerk of the Connecticut State Senate in 1949, as state liquor commissioner for the state of Connecticut from 1949 to 1955, and as chairman of the Connecticut State Liquor Commission from 1955 to 1961.

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