Gloria Schaffer

Gloria Wilinski Schaffer was born in New London, Connecticut. She attended Sarah Lawrence College. She was elected to the Connecticut State Senate in 1958, serving six terms. She was elected Secretary of the State in 1970, and was the Democratic Nominee for the United States Senate in 1976, when she was defeated by Lowell Weicker. She was the only woman Democrat to run for the U.S. Senate in that election.