Treat Clark Hull was an American

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 politician

Politician

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 and lawyer who was the Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1971 to 1973 and a judge for 23 years from 1973.

Early life

T. Clark Hull was born in Danbury

Danbury, Connecticut

Danbury is a city in northern Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. It had population at the 2010 census of 80,893. Danbury is the fourth largest city in Fairfield County and is the seventh largest city in Connecticut....

, Fairfield County

Fairfield County

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, Connecticut, on June 14, 1921. He went to school in the Philips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire

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, then he went to Yale University

Yale University

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, where he got a B.A. in 1942 He served in the United States Air Force

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 from 1942 to 1946, then earned a law degree from Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School

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 in 1948 and practiced law in Danbury from 1948 to 1973.

Political career

Hull served as a Republican Connecticut State Senator for the 24th district from 1963 to 1971. At the Republican state convention in 1970, he was given the job of entertaining the delegates while the party leaders chose a candidate for lieutenant governor, and did so well that, upon the return of the party leaders, the delegates chanted that they wanted him. He won the nomination and won the election on the ticket with gubernatorial candidate Thomas J. Meskill.

Judge

In 1973, Hull was appointed as a judge of the Superior Court of Connecticut. He was elevated to the Appellate Court in 1983 as one of its original members. He was subsequently appointed to the Supreme Court in 1987. After mandatory retirement from the Supreme Court in 1991, due to his age, he continued hearing civil cases as a state referee. He was succeeded by Robert I. Berdon.

He died on July 25, 1996, after complications from heart surgery a week earlier.