Thomas B. Evans, Jr.

Thomas Beverley Evans ( born November 5, 1931 in Nashville, Tennessee ) is a former American politician. Between 1977 and 1983 he represented the State of Delaware in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Evans attended 1936-1943, the public schools in Old Hickory ( Tennessee) and Seaford (Delaware). After that, he was until 1947 at the Woodberry Forest School in Orange ( Virginia). In 1955 he was bailiff of the Supreme Court of Delaware. Until 1956 he studied under law at the University of Virginia. In the same year he was admitted to the bar. From 1956 to 1960 he was also a member of the National Guard of Delaware. In the years 1957 to 1968 Evans worked in the insurance and mortgage business in Wilmington. After that, he was until 1970 Minister for State Development ( Director of the State Development Department ).

Evans was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1971 and 1973 he was a member of the Republican National Committee; in the years 1972, 1976 and 1980 he attended as a delegate the respective Republican National Conventions, to which Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan were nominated as the respective presidential candidates. 1976 Thomas Evans was elected as a candidate of his party in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he took over on January 3, 1977, until then held by Pierre du Pont seat after two elections he could implement his mandate in Congress until January 3, 1983. During this time he was a member of the Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs and the Committee, which dealt with the fishing and the merchant navy. In 1982, he was defeated by 46 % to 52 % of the votes the Democrats Tom Carper. This defeat was a result of the so-called golf trip scandal, in which it came to unfair relationships with the lobbyist Paula Parkinson.

After his time in Congress was Thomas Evans Member of the Washington-based law firm Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Evans. He has his main residence in Wilmington.

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