The turnpike was renamed after former Connecticut Governor John Davis Lodge on December 31, 1985, two months after the tolls were removed.
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Local legend is the initial phase of Turnpike construction in 1954 was so disruptive in heavily Republican Fairfield County that local voters there turned on incumbent Republican Governor John Davis Lodge, leading to his defeat by Abraham Ribicoff.
Portraits for clients outside these Yale commissions included Senator Robert Taft, Governor John Davis Lodge, and Presidents William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover.
John Davis Lodge (1903–1985), American film actor, politician, and diplomat
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