Albert P. Morano

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Albert Paul Morano (January 18, 1908 - December 16, 1987) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.

Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Morano moved to Greenwich, Connecticut in 1912 and attended the public schools there. He served as member of Greenwich Board of Tax Review 1933-1935, and as chairman of Chickahominy Town Meeting District 1935-1937. He was Secretary to Representative Albert E. Austin in 1939 and 1940. He engaged in the real estate and insurance business in Greenwich, Connecticut in 1942. He then served as Secretary to Representative Clare Booth Luce 1943-1947, and State unemployment compensation commissioner 1947-1950, serving as chairman of the commission in 1949 and 1950.

Morano was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1951-January 3, 1959). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958. He served as special assistant to United States Senator Thomas Dodd from 1963 to 1969. He was a resident of Greenwich, Connecticut, until his death there on December 16, 1987. He was interred in St. Mary's Cemetery.

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