- Date Of Birth: July 1, 1932
- Date Of Death: February 25, 2021
- Spouse: Patricia Fortney (m. 1952, divorced) Anne Wexler (m. 1974; died 2009)
- Occupation: Academic, educator, anti-war activist and political appointee
- City: Washington
- State: D.C.
Joseph Daniel Duffey (July 1, 1932 – February 25, 2021) was an American academic, educator, anti-war activist and political appointee. He was the Democratic Party’s candidate in the 1970 U.S. Senate election in Connecticut, losing to Republican Lowell Weicker. He later served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs; the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities; the director of the U.S. Information Agency; and the president or chancellor of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Massachusetts system and American University.
From 1960 to 1970, Duffey was an assistant professor and then acting dean and associate professor at Hartford Seminary. He was also founder and director of the Center for Urban Studies there.
Duffey married his first wife, Patricia Fortney, in 1952, when he was 19 years old. They had met at a Baptist church youth convention. Together, they had two children: David (who predeceased him in 2019) and Michael. They divorced after the Senate election in 1970. His second wife, Anne Wexler (1930–2009), was a political advisor and lobbyist. She also had two sons from her previous marriage. She died of cancer on August 7, 2009 at age 79.
Duffey died on February 25, 2021, at a retirement community in Washington, D.C. He was 88, and was ill in the time leading up to his death. – Available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License from Wikipedia.
