| Harold M. Mulvey | |
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| Office: | Attorney General of Connecticut |
| Order: | 18th |
| Predecessor: | Albert L. Coles |
| Successor: | Robert K. Killian |
| Governor: | John N. Dempsey |
| Term Start: | January 1963 |
| Term End: | January 1968 |
| Birth Date: | December 5, 1914 |
| Birth Place: | New Haven, Connecticut |
| Death Date: | February 27, 2000 (aged 85) |
| Alma Mater: | Fordham University |
| Death Place: | Hamden, Connecticut |
| Party: | Democratic |
Harold M. Mulvey (December 5, 1914 – February 27, 2000) was the 18th Attorney General of Connecticut, serving from 1963 to 1968.
Mulvey was born on December 5, 1914, in New Haven, Connecticut, and had four siblings.[1] He attended local public schools in New Haven, and then went off to college, receiving a Bachelor of Arts from Fordham University in 1938, and receiving his law degree from there in 1941.[1] [2]
After serving in World War II in the Coast Guard for four years, he commenced private law practice for a brief period in New York, opened a law office in New Haven and then became the Corporation Counsel of New Haven under Mayor Richard C. Lee, serving from 1961 to 1963.[1] [2] He had previously been a member of the Connecticut Marketing Authority from 1955 until 1961.[2]
In 1963, Mulvey, a Democrat, was appointed by Connecticut Governor John Dempsey to be the state Attorney General, filling the unexpired term of Albert L. Coles.[1] He served for four years until 1967, when he won election to the office outright. He resigned a year later to accept an appointment to the Connecticut Superior Court.[1]
During his time as a Superior Court judge, he presided over the emotionally-charged murder trials of several Black Panthers in the 1970s.[1]
Mulvey was married to Elizabeth Mulvey, and they had three children and was a devout Catholic..[3]
Mulvey died on February 27, 2000, in Hamden, Connecticut at the age of 85.[1] [3]