Edward J. Stack

Edward John Stack ( born April 29, 1910 in Bayonne, New Jersey, † November 3, 1989 in Pompano Beach, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1979 and 1981 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Stack attended the common schools and then studied until 1931 at Lehigh University in Bethlehem (Pennsylvania). After a subsequent law studies at the University of Pennsylvania and its made ​​in 1934 admitted to the bar he began in New York City to work in his new profession. At the city's Columbia University, where he studied until 1938 still administrative and governmental law. Then taught stack at the University of the City of New York, the trade economics. He was also active in the real estate industry.

During the Second World War Stack 1942-1946 was a member of the U.S. Coast Guard. He later moved to Florida. From 1965 to 1969 he served as mayor of the city of Pompano Beach; 1968 to 1978 he was sheriff in Broward County. Politically, Stack member of the Democrats, their regional party conferences in Florida, he attended in the years 1977 and 1978. From 1976 to 1978 he was a member of the Finance Committee of the Federal Party.

In the congressional elections of 1978, stack Party in the twelfth electoral district of Florida was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of J. Herbert Burke on January 3, 1979. Since he was not nominated by his party for re-election in 1980, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1981. After his retirement from the House of Representatives stack again worked as a lawyer. In 1982 he applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress. He died on 3 November 1989 in Pompano Beach.