Brief Descriptions of Connecticut State Agencies

Soldiers’, Sailors’ and Marines’ Fund

Agency Web page | Statutory Authority |Agency History |
Published histories/articles | State Library Collections | List of Commissioners

Agency Web page

Statutory Authority :
CGS 27-138 and 27-130.

Agency History :
1919, established.  Self-sustaining trust fund administered by the American Legion in accordance with relevant provisions of CGS. 
 

Published Histories/Articles :
Armstead, George B. The State Services of Connecticut. Published under the direction of the Committee on Public Information and the House Committee on Publications of the General Assembly of the State of Connecticut. Hartford?: 1946. pp. 143-147.[CSL Call Number ConnDoc G25 ar]

At agency web page

OLR Research Report 2002-R-0233, Soldiers', Sailors' and Marines' Fund.

Legislative Program Review and Investigations Committee, Connecticut General Assembly, Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines Fund, January 2006, also in the State Library Collection [CSL Call Number ConnDoc G256pre sosa]

Agency Documents and Records in the State Library Collections :

Check the State Library catalog, CONSULS, under these author headings for publications by the agency available in the State Library :

            Soldiers', Sailors' and Marines' Fund (Conn.)

Annual Reports are located in :

State Archives Record Group : RG 78
 

List of Heads :

Names	Years of Service
Administrator
Frank S. Butterworth	1919-1922
Clarence C. Scarborough	1922-1930
Eugene P. Armstrong	1930-1954
Benjamin B. Truskoski	1954-1972
John C. King	1972-1973
William J. Pomfret	1973-1987
Edward D. Barry	1987-1999
Gerald F. Dierman	1999-2006
John D. Monahan	2006-Present

Prepared by the Government Information and Reference Services Unit, page revised 12/2008.