T. Emmet Clarie

Thomas Emmet Clarie (January 1, 1913 – September 24, 1997) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Education and career Clarie was born on January 1, 1913, in Killingly, Connecticut, to his father, Thomas C. Clarie, who was a building contractor and stonemason and his mother Kathryn Burns Clarie. Clarie received a Bachelor of Philosophy degree in 1933 from Providence College and a Bachelor of Laws in 1938 from Hartford College of Law (now University of Connecticut School of Law). He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1937 to 1943, serving as Democratic floor leader from 1939 to 1943. He entered private practice in Danielson, Connecticut from 1940 to 1961. He was an assistant to the state statute revision commissioner in 1945. He served on the Connecticut State Liquor Commission from 1949 to 1961, as commissioner from 1949 to 1955 and as Chairman from 1955 to 1961. He was Clerk for the Connecticut Senate in 1949. He was prosecutor for the Killingly Town Court in Danielson in 1951. Federal judicial service