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  • President Barack Obama waves to the crowd as he processes to the stage past saluting cadets at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's 134th Commencement to deliver the keynote address to the 218 graduates of the Class of 2015.
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  • Joe Ganim celebrates with supporters by taking a selfie at his campaign headquarters after claiming victory over incumbent mayor Bill Finch in the Democratic mayoral primary in Bridgeport in September, 2015. Ganim, who held the mayor's seat from 1991 to 2003, spent seven years in federal prison on corruption charges. Ganim fulfilled his comeback bid by winning the mayor's office back in a three-way race in November.
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  • Retiring Sen. Edith Prague (right) is greeted by Rep. Peter Tercyak (left) who served as her campaign manager when she ran for the Connecticut state senate 18 years ago. Prague was honored in the Senate chambers by her colleagues on the closing day of the 2012 legislative session.
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  • Sen. Hillary Clinton speaks to a crowd at the Commons Gymnasium at the Learning Corridor in Hartford a week before Connecticut's primary on Super Tuesday in 2008. Clinton ultimately lost the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama.
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  • Carleen Flanagin, (center, standing) listens to Sen. Chris Dodd as he speaks during a final campaign stop at Capanna Coffee in Iowa City, Iowa, on caucus day in January, 2007.  Flanagin, a retired teacher, had wanted to attend the Iowa caucuses for years to learn more about the process. Sen. Dodd withdrew from the race after finishing a disappointing sixth place.
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  • Vice President Joe Biden walks by a cordon of cadets on his way to the stage at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy's 132nd commencement in New London in May, 2013. Biden gave the commencement address to the 227 graduating cadets.
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  • Three-term Connecticut Gov. John Rowland turns to leave the podium after making a brief statement to the press at the State Capitol in January, 2004. The press conference was held after Rowland and Speaker of the House Moira Lyons met for 45-minutes to discuss a committee of inquiry that would be appointed in a special legislative session to look into ethics violations by the governor. Rowland resigned later that year following corruption charges.
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  • U.S. Senator Chris Murphy has a word with his eldest son Owen before giving his acceptance speech after easily winning reelection by defeating Republican challenger Matthew Corey, at Dunkin' Donuts Park in November, 2018. Murphy's wife, Cathy looks at Owen as son Rider waves to someone in the crowd of supporters.
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  • Will Haskell chats with Cathy Siroka while campaigning in a Westport neighborhood in October, 2018.  Haskell, 22, was challenging incumbent Toni Boucher for the 26th district senate seat in Fairfield County. In his first bid for public office, he defeated Boucher who had held the seat since the year Haskell was born.
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  • Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and his wife, Cynthia, kiss after he accepted the nomination for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Chris Dodd at the Connecticut Democratic Convention at the Expo Center in May, 2010.  He won reelection in 2016.
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  • William Petit is congratulated by his wife, Christine and his son William upon winning the 22nd district House seat at Republican headquarters in Plainville on election night, 2016. Petit defeated eleven-term incumbent Democrat Betty Boukus.  Petit, a former endocrinologist, was thrust into the national spotlight when his wife and two daughters were killed in a home invasion in Cheshire in 2007.
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  • President Donald Trump gives the commencement address at the United States Coast Guard Academy's 136th commencement exercises in May, 2017.
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  • Grace Dodd, 6, kisses her dad, Sen. Chris Dodd moments after he withdrew from the presidential race at the Temple for the Performing Arts in Des Moines, Iowa, in 2007.  Dodd finished sixth in the field of Democrats in Thursday night's Iowa caucuses. Jackie Clegg Dodd smiles at left.
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  • U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon woos delegates from New Canaan at the state Republican convention at the Connecticut Convention Center during her second bid for the senate.  The professional wrestling magnate spent $15 million of her own money to try and win the seat being vacated by Joseph I. Lieberman.  She defeated Chris Shays, 3-1, to win the nomination that night, but she was ultimately defeated by U.S. Rep. Chris Murphy.
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  • Linda McMahon strikes a relaxed pose as she welcomes her family onto the stage on election night at the Connecticut Convention Center. McMahon was gracious in defeat to Richard Blumenthal for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Chris Dodd.
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  • Michelle Obama, (at right) wife of presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, holds a roundtable discussion at the Parkway Diner in Stamford in 2008.
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  • Hartford Mayor Eddie Perez pumps his fist in the air as he savors his victory over challenger I. Charles Matthews at the Arch Street Tavern.  He won reelection to another four-year term as Hartford's mayor.
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  • President Barack Obama greets Joseph Guida, 4, of Killingworth, just after arriving at the Air National Guard base at Bradley Field on his way to deliver the commencement address at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London.
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  • Lionel Rogers, of Boston, (left) argues with Ruben Israel, of Los Angeles (right) in the so-called Free Speech Zone, a fenced and barricaded area set aside for protestors near the Fleet Center in Boston where the 2004 Democratic National Convention was underway. Israel came to Boston to make sure the Democrats get his message - that the separation of church and state is wrong and we should all repent and live as Jesus taught us.  Rogers agrees, but only with the part about following Jesus' example. He was passing through the zone while selling bumper stickers he created that say "Anybody but Bush.”
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  • Gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont listens as an aid (left) and former State Treasurer Francisco Borges (right) confer during the State Democratic Convention at the Expo Center in 2010.
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  • President Barack Obama fires up the crowd during a rally for Connecticut Democrats, including Gov. Dannel Malloy, at Central High School in Bridgeport, Connecticut on November 2, 2014. Obama implored the crowd to get out and vote on Election Day.
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