[2][3][4] Satti led the New London Italian American Democratic Club in the 1930s, building a strong political base and wresting partial control of the city's Democratic Party from the Irish Americans.

[2] Satti was elected Secretary of the State of Connecticut in 1934, ousting Republican incumbent John A. Danaher.

The couple had four children: John, Robert, Eleanor, and Dianna Maria Satti.

[2][4] Robert became an attorney and public prosecutor, while John became a physician after graduating from the University of Bologna.

[7] C. John Satti died on May 7, 1968, at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London at the age of 72.