BIO: Per the summer 1998 issue of "The World of Hibernia" magazine, Senator Christopher Dodd entered the Senate office in 1981, the youngest man so elected from his state as well as the only Connecticut senator whose father once held the same position. Dodd has a third-generation connection to Ireland, the family having emigrated in the 1820s. Their families surnames were Murphy, Daley, Higgins and O'Sullivan, their counties of origin Clare, Kerry and Cork. "My father once said that public service gives one the greatest opportunity to help the greatest number of people," recalled Dodd, "I believe that." The son of Thomas and Grace Murphy Dodd, who was 54 in 1998, has paid more than lip service to that message. Beginning in 1966, he spent two years in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic, followed by six years in the U. S. Army Reserves. His passionate devotion to his Irish roots was never more apparent than when he proudly presented the North Irish Resolution to Congress in April of 1998 -- a moment of patriotism and cultural pride. Of interest, a portion of Senator Dodd's Washington's office was once the wine closet of Daniel Webster of NH (1782-1852) one of the best-known American orators, lawyers and statesmen of all times.