Agriculture is a family tradition for Steven Reviczky. His maternal grandparents were dairy farmers; his father's family raised chickens.
"The first job I had outside of working for my dad, who was a plumber, was working at an egg farm in Ashford, shoveling manure...and packing eggs,'' Reviczky said.
It was the "manure experience" that led him to politics, joked Gov.-elect Dannel Malloy, who on Tuesday appointed Reviczky state agriculture commissioner.
"He is well-known and well-respected in Connecticut's farming community,'' Malloy said.
Reviczky, 51, of Coventry, currently serves as executive director of the Connecticut Farm Bureau Association, a nongovernmental association of farmers. He was also First Selectman in Ashford.