constituency predecessor birth_place party office birth_date term_start residence spouse article_title name
represents hamden , and new haven donald e. williams , jr. . anthony v. avallone new haven , connecticut democrat president from the 11th district pro tempore of the connecticut senate connecticut senator 23 july 1948 january 7 , 2015 1993 new haven ellen ritchie martin looney
 martin m. looney
martin looney

martin m. looney -lrb- born july 23 , 1948 -rrb- is an american politician .
looney , a democrat , has been a state senator from connecticut since 1993 .
from 2003 -- 2014 , looney served as majority leader of the senate ; in 2015 he became president pro tempore of the senate .
looney , a resident of new haven , represents the eastern half of the city as well as part of hamden in the connecticut senate .
he is also a part-time professor at quinnipiac university and the university of new haven in hamden , ct and west haven , ct , respectively , where he teaches classes such as state and local governments .
looney was born in new haven and graduated from fairfield university and received his j.d. from university of connecticut school of law .
prior to being elected to the connecticut senate , looney served as a connecticut state representative .
