Dodd, Thomas Joseph (1907-1971), a Connecticut Democrat, served in the United States Senate from 1959 to 1971. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1953 to 1957. In 1967, the Senate censured Dodd on the charge that he used some donations that were intended for political use to pay some of his personal expenses.
A lawyer, Dodd served as a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1933 and 1934. As an assistant to the U.S. attorney general from 1938 to 1945, he helped create the first civil rights section of the Justice Department. He served as executive trial counsel for the United States at the Nuremberg trials in 1945 and 1946. He received a presidential citation for this work. Dodd was born in Norwich, Connecticut, and graduated from Providence College and the Yale University Law School. His son Christopher J. Dodd became a U.S. senator from Connecticut in 1981.
