Background
CONNELL, Kathleen was born on May 24, 1937 in Newport, Rhode Island, United States of America. Daughter of Laurence Sullivan and Margaret Sullivan (née Byrnes).
Rhode Island secretary of state
CONNELL, Kathleen was born on May 24, 1937 in Newport, Rhode Island, United States of America. Daughter of Laurence Sullivan and Margaret Sullivan (née Byrnes).
Salve Regina College, Rhode Island, Bachelor of Surgery, 1958. Boston College, University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College, post-grad, studies.
She was Secretary of State of Rhode Island between 1987 and 1993. She served one term in the Rhode Island Senate before running for Secretary of State. As of 2007, she is the Rhode Island Director of American Association of Retired Persons. She is the widow of Gerald (Jerry) Connell.
Roman Catholic
She started her political career as a member of the Middletown, Rhode Island school committee, where she served for 13 years, and the Middletown town council.
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