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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ConnecticutElla Tambussi GRASSO
(1919-1981)
GRASSO, Ella Tambussi, a
Representative from Connecticut; born Ella Rose Tambussi in Windsor
Locks, Hartford County, Conn., May 10, 1919; attended the St.
Mary’s School in Windsor Locks, and the Chaffee School in
Windsor; B.A., Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass., 1940;
M.A. same college, 1942; during the Second World War served as
assistant director of research for the War Manpower Commission of
Connecticut; Connecticut house of representatives, 1953-1957, and
became first woman to be elected floor leader, 1955; secretary of
State of Connecticut, 1958, and reelected, 1962, 1966; first woman
chairman, Democratic State Platform Committee, 1956-1968; member,
Platform Drafting Committee, 1960, Democratic National Convention;
cochairman, Resolutions Committee, Democratic National Conventions,
1964, 1968; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-second and
Ninety-third Congresses (January 3, 1971-January 3, 1975); was not
a candidate for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress
but was elected Governor of Connecticut in 1974 for the four-year
term commencing January 1975; reelected in 1978; resigned due to a
physical disability, December 31, 1980; resided in Windsor Locks,
Conn., until her death in Hartford, Conn., February 5, 1981;
interment in St. Mary’s Cemetery, Windsor Locks, Conn.
Bibliography
”Ella Tambussi Grasso” in Women in Congress,
1917-2006. Prepared under the direction of the Committee on
House Administration by the Office of History & Preservation,
U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing
Office, 2006; Bysiewicz; Susan. Ella: A Biography of Governor
Ella Grasso. Hartford, CT: Connecticut Consortium for Law and
Citizenship Education, Inc., 1984.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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