First elected in 1990, Richard Blumenthal is serving an unprecedented fifth term as Attorney General of Connecticut.  Blumenthal previously served as administrative assistant to U.S. Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff (D-Conn.), aide to former U.S. Sen. Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.) when Moynihan was Assistant to the President of the United States and law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun.  He was U.S. Attorney for Connecticut, the state’s chief federal prosecutor, from 1977 to 1981. He served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1984 to 1987, and then the State Senate from 1987 to 1990.

Blumenthal — the highest Democratic vote getter in the state — graduated from Harvard College (Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude), and Yale Law School, where he was editor of the Yale Law Journal. He served as a sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.

Bio of Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut AG’s Website)

January 9, 2007