April 9: Abraham Ribicoff, Governor & Barrier-Breaker
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April 9: Abraham Ribicoff, Governor & Barrier-Breaker
https://todayincthistory.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Apr-9-TodayinCTHist.mp3 On April 9, 1910, Abraham Alexander Ribicoff was born in a New Britain tenement house to Ashkenazi Jewish parents who had immigrated to Connecticut from Poland. Over the course of his lifetime, he would spend nearly fifty years in public service, including overcoming entrenched anti-Semitism to become the state’s first governor of Jewish faith. After graduating wi…
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