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  1. May 19, 2021 · Collins, 68, is married to Thomas Daffron, the couple wedded in August 2012, at the Gray Memorial United Methodist Church in Maine. Daffron, 72, is a lobbyist who worked as a chief operating officer at Jefferson Consulting Group in Washington DC from 2006 to 2016.

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    Thomas Daffron is a former lobbyist who served as COO for Jefferson Consulting Group in Washington, D.C. He is the husband of the United States Senator for Maine Susan Collins. He has worked as a newspaper reporter. He was chief of staff for Senators Bill Cohen, Fred Thompson, Mo Udall, and Lisa Murkowski, and as a speechwriter for Chuck Percy. He ...

    He graduated from Brown University with a degree in English Literature and received a master’s in journalism from Columbia University.

    He is the son of the late Katherine M. Daffron and late Thomas A. Daffron Jr., who lived in Suffern, N.Y. His father retired as an assistant news editor at The New York Times and was the managing editor of its International Edition in Paris in the 1960s. He died of heart and kidney failure in 1995 at the age of 83.

    Thomas married Susan Collins in 2012. The couple met in 1974 when Collins was an intern in former Sen. Bill Cohen’s congressional office. At the time she was 21 years old. Daffron discovered her internship application in a pile forgotten in a desk drawer. Both of her parents had supported Cohen and were mayors of Caribou, which her father represent...

    Thomas was previously married to his college sweetheart Margot Cory, in 1962. The couple later divorced.

    Thomas comes from a family of journalists as his father was an editor at The New York Times. He enrolled at Columbia Journalism School and went on to report for the Miami Herald and write editorials for the Wilmington News-Journal. In 1969 he won the American Political Science Association fellowship, which placed young journalists and academics on ...

    Daffron is a registered lobbyist who has been a senior executive at two D.C-area political consultancies with lobbying arms. He was executive vice president of Chesapeake Enterprises from 2001 to 2004, and registered as a lobbyist for Monster.com and other companies. He also worked with American Defense International, where he represented several c...

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    • Thomas Daffron Once Hired Susan Collins as an Intern. Thomas Daffron and Susan Collins go way back, although they haven’t been married that long. According to a story on Central Maine.com, Collins first met Tom Daffron when he hired her as an intern for former Senator Bill Cohen.
    • The Couple Has Been Married Since 2012. Collins and Daffron married in 2012. Their marriage occurred when Collins was already a Senator. The ceremony was performed by Rev.
    • Thomas Daffron Has Served on the Staffs of Multiple Members of Congress. According to Bloomberg, Thomas Daffron “served as the Chief Operating Officer of Jefferson Consulting Group, LLC since September 2006.
    • Daffron Comes From a Journalistic Family. Thomas Daffron “started out as a journalist,” according to Bloomberg. “Daffron was a newspaper reporter and editorial writer, a University public relations executive, a Government Relations Director for a major corporation, and Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for the Baltimore Orioles, a major league baseball team,” Bloomberg added.
  3. Since she's always in the spotlight, we've all been wondering: who is Susan Collins' husband? Apparently, Collins and her beau Thomas Daffron have known each other for 40 years, and he began...

  4. Apr 17, 2019 · Thomas Daffron told NEWS CENTER Maine that he and his wife, Senator Susan Collins, will not let the scare of a letter addressed to them, claiming to contain ricin, stop them from living their lives.

  5. Aug 11, 2012 · Senator Susan Collins' communications director, Kevin Kelley released a statement Saturday afternoon about Collins' wedding to Thomas Daffron.

  6. Oct 11, 2018 · It turns out that she’s married to a man, Thomas Daffron, who just so happens to be a lobbyist for a firm that has numerous connections to Russia and Russian oligarchs.