France's Paris is where LOWELL WEICKER JR. was born. In 1953, he earned his degree from Yale, and in 1958, he received his law degree from the University of Virginia. He served as a first lieutenant in the American Army from 1953 to 1955 and as a member of the Army Reserve from 1958 to 1964. He was twice reelected after being first elected to the Connecticut General Assembly in 1962. He won elections to the US House of Representatives in 1968, the US Senate in 1970, and two further elections in 1976 and 1982. He was named to the Senate Watergate Committee in 1973 and served as the committee's head and then its top Republican member. He was elected as Connecticut's first independent governor in 1990. He was honored with the John F. Kennedy Profiles in Courage Award in 1992 for his efforts to change Connecticut's tax code.
On January 9, 1991, Connecticut elected its 85th governor, the state's first independent leader since the Civil War. Weicker was born on May 16, 1931, to Lowell P. and Mary Bickford Weicker in Paris, France. Weicker went to the Buckley School in New York City and the Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana when he was a young man. He received his diploma from the New Jersey prep school Lawrenceville School in 1949. He continued on to Yale, where he became interested in politics, earning a B.A. in political science there in 1953.
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