Public health -- Connecticut

Scope and Contents This collections contains the papers of Florence Donady Finney, a prominent Connecticut legislator from 1948-1976. Finney served as a State Representative from 1948 until her election to the State Senate in 1954. In 1973 she was elected the first woman President Pro Tempore of the Connecticut State Senate. The bulk of the papers concern her work on House and Senate committees (including the Legislative Council and the Committees on Public Welfare and Humane Institutions, Public Utilities,...