Dannel Malloy
Dannel "Dan" Malloy (born July 21, 1955) is the Mayor of Stamford, Connecticut. First elected in 1995, he is currently serving his fourth term. Born and raised in Stamford, Malloy is the youngest of eight children. His unusual given name, Dannel, is derived from an Irish form of Daniel. Malloy suffered from severe learning disabilities as a child, a fact he relates in television commercials and speeches. Although unable to button a shirt or tie his shoes until the end of the fifth grade, Malloy eventually graduated Magna Cum Laude from Boston College and subsequently earned a law degree from Boston College Law School. After passing the bar exam, a portion of which he took orally because of his disability, Malloy served as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn from 1980 to 1984. During his tenure as a prosecutor, Malloy tried 23 felony cases, four of them homicides, and won 22 convictions. He was a partner in the Stamford firm of Abate and Fox before upsetting a Republican incumbent in the 1995 mayoral election. Mayor Malloy is a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition,[1], an organization formed in 2006 and co-chaired by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston mayor Thomas Menino.
He met his wife Cathy, while both were attending Boston College, and they married in 1982. They have three sons Dannel 20, Ben 18, and Sam 13. His son Ben is currently under arrest for selling drugs from the mayors home.
In 2004 Dan Malloy was the first candidate to announce his bid for the Democratic Party nomination for Governor of Connecticut. He received the convention endorsement of the Democratic party on May 20, 2006, but lost in the primary election to New Haven Mayor John DeStefano, Jr. on August 8, 2006.
References
- Keating, Christopher (2006-07-16). "A Duel of City Mayors: Dannel Malloy". The Hartford Courant. Retrieved 2006-07-19.