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Raymond E. Baldwin took which position from 1927 to 1930?
Raymond E . Baldwin Raymond Earl Baldwin ( August 31 , 1893 – October 4 , 1986 ) was a United States Senator and served as the 72nd and 74th Governor of Connecticut . A conservative Republican , he was elected governor of Connecticut in 1938 during a Republican landslide promising a balanced budget , government aid to private business , and lower taxes . He sharply cut the state budget , producing a million dollars surplus . He was defeated for reelection in 1940 , but was elected governor again in 1942 and 1944 . He supervised a complex system of civil defense and statewide services on the homefront during the war . He planned an elaborate program to deal with the postwar reconversion of Connecticuts many warplane and munitions plants . He was elected to the Senate in the Republican landslide of 1946 . As a spokesman for the small businesses of America , he compiled a conservative record in favor of less regulation , except for more regulation of labor unions through the Taft–Hartley Act . As chairman of a subcommittee of the Armed Services committee , Baldwin engaged in a long-running dispute with Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy . McCarthy alleged that Baldwin was whitewashing an episode in which Army prosecutors in 1944 gained the death penalty for German soldiers accused of massacring Americans at the Malmedy Massacre . Exhausted by the highly publicized controversy , Baldwin resigned from the Senate in December 1949 to become a state judge . Early life . Baldwin was born in 1893 in Rye , New York , the son of Sarah Emily ( Tyler ) and Lucian Earl Baldwin . He moved to Middletown , Connecticut , and attended public schools . He graduated from Wesleyan University in Middletown in 1916 , and entered Yale University . However , upon the declaration of war , he enlisted in the United States Navy . He was assigned to officers training school and was commissioned an ensign in February 1918 , and promoted to lieutenant ( j.g. ) in September 1918 . He resigned from the Navy in August 1919 and returned to Yale Law School , graduating in 1921 . He was admitted to the bar in 1921 and practiced in New Haven and Bridgeport . He married Edith Lindholm on June 29 , 1922 , and they had three sons . Career . Baldwin was prosecutor of the Stratford Town Court from 1927 to 1930 , and was judge of that court from 1931 to 1933 . He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933 , serving as majority leader in 1933 . He resumed the practice of law from 1933 to 1938 , and was town chairman of Stratford from 1935 to 1937 . Baldwin was Governor of Connecticut in 1939 and 1940 , and the first governor to use the Governors Mansion located on Prospect Avenue in Hartford . He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the office in 1940 . An early supporter of Wendell Willkie , he saw to it that the Connecticut delegation at the 1940 Republican Convention , would back Wilkie which was crucial to beat frontrunners Thomas Dewey , Robert A . Taft and Arthur Vandenberg . Willkie had unofficially promised Baldwin the spot as his running mate , but party leaders pressured Willikie to name Charles McNary instead , and Baldwin graciously stepped aside from contention . He was also a delegate in 1944 and 1948 . Again elected Governor in 1942 and 1944 , Baldwin served until his resignation on December 27 , 1946 . During his tenure , he eliminated the state deficit without raising taxes ; initiated a job-training program ; created an inter-racial commission , and reformed the minor court system . Also instituted were a Connecticut Veterans Advisory and Reemployment Commission ; and a labor management council . He was elected United States Senator as a Republican on November 5 , 1946 , to fill the vacancy in the term ending January 3 , 1947 , caused by the death of Francis T . Maloney . At the same time he was elected for the term commencing January 3 , 1947 , and served from December 27 , 1946 , until his resignation on December 16 , 1949 . From 1949 to 1959 Baldwin was an associate justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors ( now the Supreme Court of Connecticut ) ; was appointed chief justice in 1959 and served until his retirement in 1963 . He was chairman of the Connecticut Constitutional Convention in 1965 . Death . Baldwin died in Fairfield , Connecticut on October 4 , 1986 and is interred at Indian Hill Cemetery , Middletown , Connecticut . A member of the Connecticut State Library Committee and its successor , the State Library Board , from 1957 to 1982 ; Baldwin served as its chair for many years . In tribute to his service , the board renamed the State Librarys museum the Raymond E . Baldwin Museum of Connecticut History in 1983 . The Raymond E . Baldwin Bridge that carries the Connecticut Turnpike ( I-95 ) across the Connecticut River is also named for him . The Middlesex Judicial District courthouse in Middletown , as well as the Baldwin Center , a senior citizens center in Stratford , are named in his honor . Further reading . - Curtiss S . Johnson . Raymond E . Baldwin : Connecticut Statesman ( Chester , Connecticut , 1972 ) - Eleonora W . Schoenebaum , ed . Political Profiles : The Truman Years ( 1978 ) pp 18–19 External links . - Find A Grave - Govtrack US Congress - The Political Graveyard - National Governors Association - Connecticut State Library