an atomic symbol. Brien McMahon High School, in Norwalk, is named after him. Brien McMahon Hall, a residence hall at the University of Connecticut in Storrs, also bears his name. Footage of McMahon is included in the 1982 documentary The Atomic Cafe giving a speech urging a reasoned response to the acquisition of atomic weapons contrasting with the more McCarthyite speeches of Republican Senators Owen Brewster, Richard Nixon and Democratic Representative Lloyd Bentsen. See also List of United States Congress members who died in office (1950–99) References American National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; U.S. Congress. Memorial Services. 83d Cong., 1st sess., 1953. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1953. External links Annotated Bibliography for Brien McMahon from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues Nuclearfiles.org |- |- |- |- |- 1903 births 1952 deaths 20th-century American judges 20th-century American lawyers Candidates in the 1952 United States presidential election Connecticut Democrats Connecticut lawyers Connecticut state court judges Deaths from cancer in Washington, D.C. Democratic Party United States senators from Connecticut Fordham University alumni Franklin D. Roosevelt administration personnel Politicians from Norwalk, Connecticut United States Assistant Attorneys General for the Criminal Division Yale Law School alumni