Mark DeCaprio
Representative · State house · Connecticut · District 48
Republican
Biography
Mark and his wife are lifelong Connecticut residents. Mark enlisted in the US Navy Submarine Service and served on a nuclear submarine in New London, CT. After completing his US Navy four year active duty service, he attended Eastern Connecticut State University and earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology/minor in chemistry and later attained a Masters in Public Health (MPH) from University of Connecticut. Mark started his state service working in the Department of Public Health Laboratory Division as a microbiologist. He transferred to a emergency response coordinator position, working and retiring from the State Department of Energy & Environmental Protection (DEEP), where he was promoted through the ranks and worked the last 20 years as a division director in in the emergency oil & chemical spill response and spill prevention program. In addition to his division director duties, Mark served as CT DEEP’s agency liaison with the CT Department/Division of Homeland Security, Connecticut’s representative for the New England Regional Response Team (RRT1), and administrator of the State Emergency Response Commission.
On the record
- Education
- Eastern Connecticut State University, Bachelor of Science in Biology/minor in chemistry; University of Connecticut, Masters in Public Health
- Profession
- Microbiologist; Emergency response coordinator; Division director
- Family
- Married.
Contact
- Capitol office
- Room 4200, Legislative Office Building 300 Capitol Ave., Hartford, CT 06106 · 860-240-8700
- Phone
- 860-240-8700
- mark.decaprio@housegop.ct.gov