Shawn T. Wooden is an American attorney and politician who served as the

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between January 2019 and January 2023. Wooden previously served as a member of the

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City Council.

Early life and career

Wooden attended

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on a scholarship. He earned his

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from

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. After graduating from college and prior to attending law school, he worked for Hartford Mayor Carrie Saxon Perry. He also served as Connecticut State Director for Project VOTE and worked for the AFL-CIO's Office of Investment in Washington, D.C. Wooden was elected to the Hartford

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in 2011. With a one vote margin, his colleagues chose him to be City Council President in January 2012 and unanimously reelected him to the post in January 2014. While on the City Council, Wooden advocated for fiscal stability, economic development, local resident hiring, anti-violence initiatives and youth services programs. He ran for the second district seat in the

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in the 2014 elections, but narrowly lost to long-term incumbent Eric D. Coleman. Wooden opted not to seek reelection in 2015. He was a

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at the law firm of

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where he worked for 21 years as an investment lawyer and led the firm's public pension fund investment practice.

State treasurer

In the 2018 elections, Wooden ran for

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. He won the

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nomination, and the general election, defeating

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Thad Gray. As state treasurer, Wooden developed a plan to divest $30 million in state funds from companies that make ammunition. Wooden announced that he would not run for reelection in the

2022 Connecticut State Treasurer election The 2022 Connecticut State Treasurer election took place on November 8, 2022, to elect the next Connecticut State Treasurer. Incumbent Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party Treasurer Shawn Wooden (politician), Shawn Wooden did not ...

References

External links

Government website

Campaign website
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