United States Senate Election In Connecticut, 1970
The United States Senate election of 1970 in Connecticut was held on November 3, 1970. Republican Party (United States), Republican Lowell Weicker defeated Democratic candidate Joseph Duffey and incumbent Thomas J. Dodd who ran this time, as an independent. Dodd entered the race at the last minute and split the Democratic vote, allowing Weicker to win with only 42% of the vote. Democratic primary Candidates * Alphonsus Donahue, Stamford, Connecticut, Stamford businessman * Joseph Duffey, anti-war activist * Edward L. Marcus, President of the Connecticut Senate Results Republican primary Candidates * John Lupton, State Senator * Lowell Weicker, U.S. Representative from Greenwich, Connecticut, Greenwich Results Results External linksDissent of the Governed a documentary made by and about the Duffey campaign References

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Lowell Weicker
Lowell Palmer Weicker Jr. (; born May 16, 1931) is an American politician who served as a U.S. Representative, U.S. Senator, and the 85th Governor of Connecticut. He unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president in 1980. He was known as a Rockefeller Republican in Congress, causing conservative-leaning Republicans to endorse his opponent Joe Lieberman, a New Democrat, in the 1988 Senate election which he subsequently lost. Weicker later left the Republican Party, and became one of the few third-party candidates to be elected to a state governorship in the United States in recent years, doing so on the ticket of A Connecticut Party. As of 2022, Weicker is the last person to have represented Connecticut in the U.S. Senate as a Republican. Early life Weicker was born in Paris, the son of American parents Mary Hastings (née Bickford) and Lowell Palmer Weicker. His grandfather Theodore Weicker was a German immigrant who co-founded the E. R. Squibb corporation. ...
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