MORRISON, Bruce Andrew
1944–
Biography
MORRISON, Bruce Andrew, a Representative from Connecticut; born in New York City, October 8, 1944; attended public schools, Northport, N.Y.; graduated, Northport High School, 1962; S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass., 1965; M.S., University of Illinois, Urbana, 1970; J.D., Yale Law School, 1973; admitted to the Connecticut bar, 1973 and commenced practice in New Haven; admitted to practice in the United States Supreme Court, 1976, to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, 1979, and to the New York bar, 1981; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-eighth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1983-January 3, 1991); was not a candidate for reelection in 1990 to the One Hundred Second Congress but was an unsuccessful nominee for governor of Connecticut; is a resident of Hamden, Conn.
View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
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University of Connecticut Library
Thomas J. Dodd Research Center
Storrs, CT
Papers:
ca. 1980-2000, 127 linear feet.
The Bruce Morrison papers contain the office files of four legislative assistants to Mr. Morrison during his Congressional membership from 1983-1990, including documentation of his campaigns, as well as constituent correspondence for the period; his unsuccessful campaign for governor of Connecticut in 1990; his association with the Federal Housing Finance Board (FHFB) from 1995 through 2000; and his involvement with the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, also named the "Jordan Commission" after its chairwoman Barbara Jordan. The collection further documents his work to mobilize the Irish vote in support of Bill Clinton during the 1992 presidential campaign through the group Irish-Americans for Clinton/Gore as well as other issues relating to Ireland and the Irish people. A finding aid is available in the repository and online.
University of Oklahoma
The Julian P. Kanter Political Commercial Archive, Department of Communication
Norman, OK
Videoreels and Videocassettes:
1982-1990, 11 commercials on 3 videoreels and 16 commercials on 7 videocassettes.
The commercials were used during Bruce Morrison's campaigns for the 1982, 1984 and 1986 U.S. congressional elections in District 3 and the 1990 gubernatorial elections in Connecticut, Democratic Party.
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