State Treasurer Nappier Won’t Seek Reelection

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – State Treasurer Denise Nappier has announced she won’t seek re-election to a sixth term in office.
The Democrat made the announcement Wednesday.
She became the nation’s first African-American woman elected as a state treasurer in 1998, and the first woman elected treasurer in Connecticut history.
She defeated then-incumbent Republican State Treasurer Paul Silvester, who later was convicted of federal corruption charges.
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