Governor Ned Lamont directed U.S. and state flags in Connecticut to return to full-staff at sunset Monday evening… that after the flags had been flying at half-staff for the last several days in remembrance of former Governor Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. A funeral service in his honor was held on Monday morning at Saint Barnabas Church in Greenwich, followed by an interment at Putnam Cemetery.
Opinion writer Jonathan L. Wharton remembers being 10 years old when he first met the late Lowell P. Weicker, Jr., whom he says was a rare political maverick who as relatable as he was aggressive.
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HARTFORD (AP) Lowell P. Weicker Jr., a Republican U.S. senator who tussled with his own party during the Watergate hearings, championed legislation to protect people with disabilities and later was elected Connecticut governor as an independent, died Wednesday. He was 92.
Weicker's death at a h
Former Connecticut Sen. Lowell P. Weicker died Wednesday after a brief illness, his family said. Weicker served on the Senate's Watergate committee in 1973.