Search results
Abraham Alexander Ribicoff (April 9, 1910 – February 22, 1998) was an American Democratic Party politician from the state of Connecticut. He represented Connecticut in the United States House of Representatives and Senate and was the 80th Governor of Connecticut and Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in President John F ...
Abraham A. Ribicoff, 87, the son of an immigrant who went on to a long and admired career in public life as a U.S. senator from Connecticut, governor of his state and secretary of the U.S....
Apr 11, 2022 · Abraham Ribicoff rose from a New Britain tenement to become Connecticut's first Jewish governor and a confidant of President John F. Kennedy.
Feb 23, 1998 · Abraham A. Ribicoff of Connecticut, the son of impoverished immigrant parents who put himself through school working in a buckle factory and went on to become a governor, a senator, a Cabinet...
Feb 23, 1998 · Abraham A. Ribicoff, the powerful and popular Governor of Connecticut, Congressman and United States Senator who served as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under John F. Kennedy,...
Ribicoff served as a member of the House of Representatives until 1952. Two years later, he was elected as governor of Connecticut. He remained at this post until asked by newly elected President John Kennedy to serve in the cabinet as the secretary of health, education, and welfare.
Feb 23, 1998 · Abraham A. Ribicoff, a storybook politician whose rare mix of talent, timing and luck took him from a boyhood dream in New Britain to a distinguished third term in the United States Senate,...
