Martin M. Looney (born July 23, 1948) is an

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. Looney, a

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, has been a

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from

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since 1993. From 2003 to 2014, Looney served as Majority Leader of the Senate; in 2015 he became President Pro Tempore of the Senate. Looney, a resident of

New Haven New Haven is a city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is located on New Haven Harbor on the northern shore of Long Island Sound in New Haven County, Connecticut and is part of the New York City metropolitan area. With a population of 134,02 ...

, represents the eastern half of the city as well as parts of Hamden and North Haven in the Connecticut Senate. He is also a part-time professor at Quinnipiac University and the University of New Haven in Hamden, CT and West Haven, CT, respectively, where he teaches classes such as State and Local Governments. Looney was born in New Haven and graduated from

Fairfield University Fairfield University is a private Jesuit university in Fairfield, Connecticut. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1942. In 2017, the university had about 4,100 full-time undergraduate students and 1,100 graduate students, including full-time ...

and later received his

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in English 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 Hart ...

followed by his J.D. from

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Prior to being elected to the Connecticut Senate, Looney served as a

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. In 2001, Looney lost to incumbent John DeStefano Jr. in the Democratic primary for mayor of

. In July 2016, Looney said he would "certainly" consider running for

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if incumbent Lieutenant Governor

Nancy Wyman Nancy S. Wyman (born April 21, 1946) is an American Democratic Party politician who was the 108th lieutenant governor of Connecticut, from 2011 to 2019. She was state comptroller of Connecticut from 1995 to 2011, and was the first woman elect ...

decided not to run in the 2018 election.

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