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10-Term CT State Rep, Newspaper Editor, Hudson Valley Native Richard ‘Dick’ Roy Dies At 76 10-Term CT State Rep, Newspaper Editor, Hudson Valley Native Richard ‘Dick’ Roy Dies At 76
10-Term CT State Rep, Newspaper Editor, Hudson Valley Native Richard ‘Dick’ Roy Dies At 76 A 10-term Connecticut State Representative and journalist Richard "Dick" Roy has died. Roy, of Milford, died Sunday, June 2. He was 76. Roy was elected the State Representative from the 119th district in Hartford. He went on to serve with distinction for 10 terms. He secured the passage of the state's first distracted driving bill as well as mandatory labeling of GMO products and the banning of pesticides on school property. He chaired the Environmental Committee for many years. Roy was born in the Hudson Valley in Orange County's Cornwall to the late Lucien and Kathleen Callahan Ro…