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He also served as councilman from 1953 to 1955, as judge of Bristol city court from 1955 to 1960, as city Coordinator of redevelopment from 1957 to 1959, and as Chief Prosecutor of the Bristol circuit court from 1960 to 1962. In 1962, Grabowski was elected U.S. Representative from Connecticut's at-large seat as a Democrat.
Barnes was born in Bristol, Connecticut, to Lillian (née Houbertz) and Harry Clarke Barnes as one of four children.He was named after his grandfather Wallace Barnes, the founder of the Barnes Group in 1857, and is a direct descendant of Ebenezer Barnes, who became the first permanent settler of Bristol in 1728.
William Henry Bristol (July 5, 1859–June 18, 1930) was an inventor, manufacturer, educator, and environmentalist. Bristol was born in Waterbury, Connecticut.. After graduating from the Stevens Institute of Technology in 1884 with an engineering degree, [1] he returned there in 1886 as an instructor and progressed to become a professor of mathematics in 1899.
On October 12, 2022, two police officers of the Bristol Police Department were shot and killed while responding to a domestic dispute in Bristol, Connecticut.Nicholas Brutcher made a fake 911 call requesting the police and ambushed the three responding officers, Sergeant Dustin DeMonte, Officer Alex Hamzy, and Officer Alec Iurato, with an semi-automatic rifle.
William A. Petit Jr. (born September 24, 1956) [1] is an American former physician and politician. A Republican, he represented District 22 (Plainville and formerly part of New Britain) in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 2017 to 2023.
James Petersen was born in Bristol, Connecticut, in 1954. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1979 with a BA in anthropology and environmental studies, and earned his PhD at the University of Pittsburgh in 1983 for a thesis on the prehistoric people of Vermont. [1] [2]
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The following is a list of notable people who were born, raised, or a resident of the U.S. state of Connecticut, with place of birth or residence when known. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.