Joseph Edward Talbot (March 18, 1901 – April 30, 1966) was a

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from

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. Born in

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, Talbot attended the public schools. He was graduated from

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, in 1922 and from

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in 1925. He was

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in 1925 and commenced practice in Naugatuck and

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. He served as prosecuting attorney in Naugatuck from 1928 to 1933 and judge from 1935 to 1937. He was State Treasurer, 1939–1941, and workmen's compensation commissioner for the fifth district of Connecticut in 1941 and 1942. Talbot was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh Congress in a special election to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of J. Joseph Smith. He was reelected to the Seventy-eighth and Seventy-ninth Congresses and served from January 20, 1942, to January 3, 1947. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1946. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the gubernatorial nomination in 1946 and an unsuccessful candidate for election to the

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in 1950. He was appointed a member of the

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in April 1953. He was reappointed in May 1959 and again on July 14, 1965, serving as vice chairman 1953-1959 and as chairman from 1959. He served as chairman of the Committee on Reciprocity Information from 1959 until his death in

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, April 30, 1966. He was interred in St. James Cemetery,

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Talbot, Joseph Edward 1901 births 1966 deaths Dartmouth College alumni Yale Law School alumni State treasurers of Connecticut People from Naugatuck, Connecticut Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut 20th-century American politicians