Audrey Phillips Beck (August 6, 1931 – March 11, 1983) was an American politician and educator. Born in

Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...

, New York, Beck moved with her family to Norwalk, Connecticut, where she grew up. Beck received her bachelor's and master's degree from

University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from H ...

. From 1961 to 1967, Beck taught economics at the University of Connecticut. She was also visiting professor at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's College, and was ...

. In 1967, Beck worked as an economist for the Windham Regional Planning Commission. From 1967 to 1975, Beck served in the

Connecticut House of Representatives The Connecticut State House of Representatives is the lower house in the Connecticut General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Connecticut. The house is composed of 151 members representing an equal number of districts, with ...

. She then served in the

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from 1975 until her death in 1983. Beck lived in Storrs, Connecticut, and was a consultant for the insurance business Cigna Corporation. Beck committed suicide, by slashing her wrists, in a wooded area in

Willington, Connecticut Willington is a town in Tolland County, Connecticut, United States. The population was 5,566 at the 2020 census. The Willimantic River borders the town on the west. Willington is about 25 miles northeast of Hartford on Interstate 84, which also ...

.'Audrey Beck dead at 51 "A casualty of politics,"' The Day (New London, Connecticut), Thomas Farragher, March 12, 1983, pg. 1, 12

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