He was born in
Putnam,
Windham County, Connecticut, and attended the secondary schools of Putnam. He graduated from
Tufts University in 1941 and enlisted in the United States Army in 1942, serving in the Army Air Corps in North Africa and Europe, and was discharged as a
flight engineer in September 1945. He then attended the
University of Connecticut School of Law at
Hartford in 1948, and was admitted to the bar in 1948. He commenced the practice of law in Putnam in 1948, becoming judge of the
probate court from 1948 to 1962. He was a member of board of education of Putnam in 1939–1941, and served in the
State House of Representatives in 1941–1942. He served as prosecutor of the city court of Putnam from 1949 to 1951, and in 1955 he became judge of the city court of Putnam, serving until 1961. He was chairman and executive director of the redevelopment agency of Putnam, 1956–1958, and was
mayor of the city in 1961–1962. In 1962 he was elected as a
Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and to the three succeeding
Congresses, serving from January 3, 1963, until his death from a heart attack in
Groton, Connecticut in 1970. His body was interred in St. Mary's Cemetery, Putnam. He was succeeded as Representative by
Robert H. Steele. ==See also==