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Brief Descriptions of Connecticut State Agencies

Shell-Fish Commission

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

Agency Web page :
Not available

Statutory Authority :
Chapt. 491, Gen. Statutes.

Agency History :

1881, established per Public Acts chpt. CLX.
1971, merged with new Dept. of Environmental Protection

Published Histories/Articles :
Not available

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 :

Connecticut. Shell-Fish Commissioners.

Annual Reports are located in :

1881-1953, [CSL Call Number ConnDoc Sh42]
1954-1970, Digest of Administrative Reports to the Governor. [CSL Call Number ConnDoc F40 d]

State Archives Record Group :
Not available

List of Commissioners :

Name

Years of Service

Robert G. Pike 1882-1889
William M. Hudson 1882-1889, 1891, 1893
George N. Woodruff 1882-1884
James A. Bell 1885-1889
George C. Waldo 1891, 1893-1896, 1898-1915
B.A. Treat 1891
Chas. W. Beardsley 1893-1894
Christian Swartz 1894-1896
G.W. Hallock 1895-1896, 1898
Seth Sanford 1899-1903
William J. Atwater 1904-1906
John H. Clark 1907-1911
William H. Lathrop 1909-1910
Andrew J. Broughel 1911-1915
Edmund C. Spencer 1911-1912
Horace E. Kelsey 1913-1920
E. Frank Lockwood 1915-1922
Frank W. Rowley 1915-1922
William H. Brown 1921-1924
Howard W. Beach 1923-1934
Frederick F. Lovejoy 1923-1926
Charles B. Marsh 1925-1932
William A. Lewis 1927-1930
Eugene Hoyt 1931-1934
William F. London 1933-1944
William D. Scranton 1935-1942
Elijah S. Ball 1935-1938
Stanley L. Tallmadge 1939-1943
Arthur R. Beach 1943-1954
James A. Gilmore 1945-1954
James E. Munson 1945-1948
John Stewart Rankin 1949-1964
Eric T. Ball 1955-1970
Bruce A. Fettig 1955-1970
James Mayhew 1957-1964
J. Richard Nelson 1957-1971
Edward B. Holub 1965-1971
J. Louis Radel 1965-1970
Edwin C. Fordham 1971
John E. Baker 1971
Norman Bloom 1971

Prepared by the Government Information and Reference Services Unit, page revised 8/2008.