Dan Malloy

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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 a street in his home town. 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.

He met his wife Cathy, while both were attending Boston College, and they married in 1982. They have three sons Dannel 20, Benjamin 18, and Samuel 13.

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.

In late March, 2007, Malloy's youngest son was said to be involved in a controversy surrounding threatening racist calls made against African-American Stamford High School student Candice Owens. In response to the ongoing police investigation, the Mayor issued a statement, reading in part: "I am today confirming that my son, who is 14 years old, has in fact fully cooperated with the Stamford Police Department in its investigation. He has given a complete and voluntary report of all facts known or witnessed by him regarding the incident."[1]