Robert Hampton Steele is a retired American politician. Steele was born in Hartford, Connecticut. His father, known as Bob Steele, was host of the state's top rated morning show on WTIC-AM for more than fifty years. He attended public schools in Wethersfield, Connecticut and obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College, Massachusetts in 1960. He graduated from Columbia University in 1963. Between 1968 and 1970 Steele was a securities analyst for the Travelers Insurance Company. Steele was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives for the 2nd District of Connecticut from 1970 to 1975. He was elected simultaneously to the Ninety-first and to the Ninety-second Congresses by special election to fill the vacancy caused by the death of United States Representative William L. St. Onge. He was re-elected to the Ninety-third Congress by the widest margin in the history of the 2nd District; but was not a candidate for re-election to the Ninety-fourth Congress in 1974. In 1974 he was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Connecticut and is now a resident of Essex, Connecticut. [More at Wikipedia]

November 3rd, 1938 in Hartford (Age 85)