Ed Edmondson (politician)

Career

Ed Edmondson was the older brother of James Howard Edmondson. This was governor of Oklahoma and represented the state in the U.S. Senate. Ed Edmondson attended the common schools and graduated in 1938, the Muskogee Junior College. Then he studied until 1940 at the University of Oklahoma.

Between 1940 and 1943 he worked as a special investigator for the FBI before he served in the U.S. Navy during World War II from 1943 to 1946. Until 1970 he was a member of the Naval Reserve. After the war Edmondson studied until 1947 at Georgetown University in Washington law. In the same year he was admitted to the bar. After that, he was district attorney in Muskogee County.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1968 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. 1952 Edmondson was elected in the Second District of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives. After a total of nine re- election he was able to complete in Congress between January 1953 and January 3, 1973 3 ten legislative periods. In 1972 he not applied for the re-election. Instead, he ran this year as in 1974 unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate. In 1978, he had already failed in the primaries of his party in an attempt to be nominated for the Senate election. After that, he never again ran for political office.

With his wife, June, Ed Edmondson had five children. The son James became a judge of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, whose younger brother Drew was Attorney General of Oklahoma. Ed Edmondson died in 1990.