June 26, 1954:
Former Rep. Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut is designated the Democratic nominee for governor at the state party convention in Hartford.
Ribicoff left the House to run for the Senate in 1952, when he was defeated by incumbent Republican Prescott Bush.
In November, Ribicoff will unseat GOP Gov. John Davis Lodge. He will be re-elected in 1958, then leave in midterm to become President Kennedy's secretary of health, education and welfare. In 1962, he will win the first of three Senate terms.
His signature moment in the national spotlight will come at the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago where, in nominating Sen. George McGovern (D-SD) for the presidency, he blasts Mayor Richard Daley for "Gestapo tactics on the streets of Chicago."
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