[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 147 (2001), Part 6]
[Senate]
[Pages 7974-7975]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                      IN MEMORY OF EDMUND DELANEY

 Mr. DODD. Mr. President, I rise today to pay tribute to the 
late Edmund T. Delaney, an accomplished lawyer, lecturer, historian and 
author, and a man that I felt privileged to consider a friend.
  Ed Delaney graduated from Princeton University in 1933 and Harvard 
Law School in 1936. He was a gifted attorney who practiced law for over 
40 years in New York and Connecticut. He was a partner in the New 
London and Essex firm of Copp, Koletsky and Berall. Ed was a member of 
the Association of the Bar of the City of New York where he served as 
Chairman of the Committees on Corporate Law, Law and Medicine,

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and Art. During his career, he specialized in investment company law, 
serving for 39 years as a director of the Oppenheimer Funds.
  Ed Delaney was also extremely active in civic and community affairs 
throughout his professional life, making numerous contributions to his 
community and to the State of Connecticut. He dedicated himself to 
protecting the region's rich cultural history and natural beauty. The 
preservation of the Connecticut River and the Connecticut River Valley 
was just one of the causes that he championed through his extensive 
writings. Ed was a former president of both the Chester Historical 
Society and the Chester Rotary Club, a trustee of the Connecticut 
Watershed Council, and a member of the Connecticut Historical 
Commission in Hartford. He was also a trustee of the Connecticut River 
Museum in Essex and he was active in the Rockfall Foundation in 
Middletown.
  Long interested in historic preservation and conservation, he was a 
member of the historical societies of Deep River, Essex, and Lyme, of 
the Antiques and Landmarks Society, and of the National and Connecticut 
Preservation Trusts and Nature Conservancies. He was also involved in 
Chester town affairs as a chairman of the Conservation Commission as a 
member of the town retirement board, and as a Justice of the Peace. In 
addition, he also served on the Middlesex County Revitalization 
Commission. His contributions to future generations and to the state of 
Connecticut were truly remarkable.
  Long before he demonstrated his prodigious appetite for community and 
civic engagement, Ed Delaney amassed a distinguished record of military 
service. After serving in the Squadron A Cavalry of the New York 
National Guard, he went on active duty in the field artillery in 1940, 
graduating from the Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, OK, and 
serving as battery commander in the 105th Field Artillery. In 1941, he 
was transferred to the Military Intelligence Service as part of the 
general staff in Washington, where he became a lieutenant colonel and 
chief on the Western European Branch and French Specialist in the War 
Department. He accompanied the Assistant Secretary of War, John J. 
MacEloy, on a special mission to North Africa in 1943. In 1945, he 
became Acting Counsel to the Army-Navy Liquidation Commission in Paris. 
He received three War department citations, the Army Commendation 
Ribbon, and the French Medaille de la Reconnaissance Francaise.
  Edmund Delaney was a remarkable man in a great many respects. He was 
a distinguished member of the armed services, a successful attorney, 
and an energetic leader in a variety of organizations devoted to 
advancing the public good. He brought to all of his endeavors an 
unusual depth of insight, compassion and understanding. He was 
dedicated to his family, his friends, his community, and not least, his 
country. He was a fine and patriotic man. And he was someone whom I 
respected and whose ideas I admired.
  My heartfelt sympathies go out to his wife Barbara, to his children 
and grandchildren, and to his other surviving family members. He will 
be missed greatly by them, and many others. But there is some comfort 
in knowing that his good deeds have made a lasting impact on the lives 
of those he left behind.

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