John Droney Jr., prominent Democrat and lawyer, dead at 79

CT Mirror – Monday, July 20, 2026
By Mark Pazniokas

John F. Droney Jr., who happily clashed with political opponents of either party as a quotable Democratic state chairman under Gov. William O’Neill and a strategist for Joseph I. Lieberman in two very different U.S. Senate campaigns, died Sunday. He was 79.

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