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  Seely-Brown, Jr., Horace
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NameHorace Seely-Brown, Jr.
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Pomfret, Connecticut , United States
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Born May 12, 1908
DiedApril 09, 1982 (73 years)
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Dec 19, 2014 07:54pm
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InfoSEELY-BROWN, Horace, Jr., a Representative from Connecticut; born in Kensington, Montgomery County, Md., May 12, 1908; attended the public schools of Hoosick, N.Y.; was graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1929; student at Yale University in 1929 and 1930; taught school in Hoosick, N.Y., 1930-1932 and in New Lebanon, N.Y., 1932-1934; moved to Pomfret, Conn., in 1934 and taught school until 1942; delegate to the Republican State conventions in 1938, 1940, and 1942; served as Air Operations Officer, Carrier Aircraft Service Unit No. 2, from February 1943 to January 1946; engaged in agricultural pursuits in 1946; elected as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress (January 3, 1947-January 3, 1949); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress; elected to the Eighty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1959); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress; elected in 1960 to the Eighty-seventh Congress (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1963); was not a candidate for renomination in 1962 but was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1962; resumed agricultural pursuits; resided in Pomfret Center, Conn., until his death in Boca Raton, Fla. on April 9, 1982; interment in Christ Episcopal Church Cemetery, Pomfret Center, Conn.


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  11/06/1962 CT US Senate Lost 48.75% (-2.51%)
  11/08/1960 CT District 2 Won 50.12% (+0.24%)
  11/04/1958 CT District 2 Lost 46.71% (-6.58%)
  11/06/1956 CT District 2 Won 59.05% (+18.10%)
  11/02/1954 CT District 2 Won 50.69% (+1.38%)
  11/04/1952 CT District 2 Won 55.49% (+10.97%)
  11/07/1950 CT District 2 Won 50.82% (+1.64%)
  11/02/1948 CT District 2 Lost 48.35% (-3.29%)
  11/05/1946 CT District 2 Won 55.29% (+10.58%)
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