Wall of Honor

Antonina “Ann” Uccello

31 Neptune Court

  • 1963 – 1967 – Hartford City Council
  • 1967 – 1969 – Mayor of Hartford
  • 1969 – U.S. Department of Transportation

First woman to be elected mayor of Hartford, and the state, and the first female mayor of a capital city anywhere in the country. She later ran for Congress and became a member of the Nixon administration.

Abraham Alexander Ribicoff

Mott Avenue

  • 1962 – -1981 – U.S. Senator
  • 1938 – 1942 – Connecticut House of Representatives
  • 1949 – 1953 – U.S. Representative
  • 1954 – -1961 – Governor of Connecticut
  • 1961 – Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare
Thomas “Red” Foran

52 Mott Avenue

  • 1943 – Volunteered as a paratrooper and was assigned to the 551st Airborne Battalion which was absorbed into the 82nd Airborne division, serving in the campaigns of Italy, and France, he parachuted behind German lines near Draguignan.
  • 1944  – He was wounded in France during the liberation of Nice and in Belgium during the Battle of the Ardennes, while his battalion commander Colonel Wood JOERG was killed instantly.

A presumed ancestor was Job Foran, an admiral in the French fleet who was made a baron by King Louis XIV in 1688. The ducal title of Saint Bar is said to have been conferred on another ancestor in 1799 by the King of Naples and the Two Sicilies.

He will be decorated with the Bronze Star, the purple heart with two palms, and the Yugoslav war cross. He served as aide-de-camp to King Peter II of Yugoslavia and later defended and published.

Subsequently, he defended and published several books on the Yugoslav royal family Karageorges. After the war, he lived in Paris, where he represented European wines and spirits in the United States. He was a Knight Grand Cross with Sash of the Sovereign Order of Malta, an order he served in many capacities for 45 years.

Russell Randolph Waesche Sr.

46 Mott Avenue

  • 1915 – Participated in the creation of the Coast Guard with the merger of the Revenue Cutter Service and the U.S. Life-Saving Service.
  • 1932 – Started the Coast Guard Institute and Correspondence School for warrant officers and enlisted personnel as well as the reorganization of Coast Guard field forces.
  • 1939 – Was appointed Commandant as a rear admiral and was largely responsible for the merger of the U.S. Lighthouse Service with the Coast Guard.
  • 1942 – Was promoted to Vice Admiral of the Coast Guard.
  • 1945 – Was promoted to Admiral and was the first Coast Guard officer to achieve the ranks of Vice Admiral and Admiral.
  • 1945 – Retired from the Coast Guard as the longest-serving commandant in Coast Guard history.

The current library at the Coast Guard Academy is named Waesche Hall.

Thomas M. Waller

11 Elliott Avenue

  • 1867 – Served in the Connecticut House of Representatives
  • 1870 – 1871 – Secretary of the State of Connecticut
  • 1872 – Served in the Connecticut House of Representatives
  • 1873 – 1879 – Mayor of New London, Connecticut
  • 1876 – Served in the Connecticut House of Representatives
  • January 3, 1883, to January 8, 1885 – Governor of Connecticut

In 1882 Waller ran for governor on the Democratic ticket and defeated William Bulkeley (brother of future governor Morgan Bulkeley) by more than 4,000 votes. He served from January 3, 1883, to January 8, 1885.[5] In 1884 Waller sought reelection and received more votes than his Republican opponent, Henry Baldwin Harrison, but it was less than the 50% majority required by law; the choice fell to the state legislature, which was controlled by Republicans, and they selected Harrison. As Governor, Waller was notable for his support of civil rights legislation on the state level, helping trigger a shift in the Connecticut Democratic Party.

Waller Street in New London is named after him.

John McCain

1140 Ocean Avenue

  • 1982 – Elected to the United States House of Representatives.
  • 1987 – Became a U.S. Senator for Arizona.
  • 2000 – Ran as the Republican Party candidate for President of the United States, but George W. Bush was chosen.
  • 2008 – Was chosen as the Republican candidate for President. His running mate was Sarah Palin. He opposed several foreign policies of the Obama administration. On November 4, 2008, he lost to Barack Obama.

As a 4-year-old boy, John McCain and his family moved into a home on Ocean Avenue in New London. His father was stationed at the naval submarine base in Groton. It was on the front lawn of that home where historians say he learned the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and his father would be going to war. John McCain lived on Ocean Avenue in New London from the time he was four until about nine. A young McCain went to kindergarten and first grade at what’s now known as Harbor Elementary School.