Giaimo, Robert N.
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U.S. representative, of North Haven, Conn.; b. Robert Nicholas Giaimo, 1919.
Son of Rosario and Rose Scarpulla Giaimo, Robert Nicholas Giaimo was raised in North Haven, CT . He earned his A.B. from Fordham University (1941) and his LL.B. from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1943. Giaimo married Marion Shuenemann of Windsor, CT, in 1945.
Giaimo was a member of the 86th-96th Congresses from the Third District of Connecticut (New Haven area) from 1958-1980. During his twenty-two years, he served on the House Budget Committee, the House Commission on Information and Facilities, the Joint Committee on Intelligence, the House Appropriations Committee, and its subcommittees on Department of Defense, District of Columbia, Treasury Postal Service and General Government, Legislative Branch, and Housing and Urban Development.
Robert N. Giaimo made many contributions during his 22 years in Congress. Among the most noteworthy are: co-sponsoring a bill that led to the creation of the National Endowment of the Arts and Humanities; leading the first successful effort to end funds for the fighting in Indochina ; sponsoring a provision for eliminating the loyalty oath in the National Defense Education Act; and working for the inclusion of the old New Haven Railroad in the Penn Central merger.
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United States
Arts
Arts
Budget
Budget
Budget
Budget
Connecticut
Connecticut
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Expenditures, Public
Expenditures, Public
Humanities
Humanities
Indochina
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Intelligence service
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Legislative bodies
Loyalty oaths
Loyalty oaths
National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Humanities
New Haven (Conn.)
North Haven (Conn.)
United States. Congress
United States. Congress
United States. Congress. House
United States. Congress. House. Commission on Information and Facilities
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations
United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget
United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Intelligence
United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Congressional Operations
United States. National Defense Education Act of 1958
Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
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Indochina
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North Haven (Conn.)
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Connecticut
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New Haven (Conn.)
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