Alton R. Waldon, Jr.

Alton R. Waldon Jr. ( born December 21, 1936 in Lakeland, Florida) is an American lawyer and politician. He represented in the years 1986 and 1987 the New York State in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Alton R. Waldon Jr. graduated in 1954 at the Boys High School in Brooklyn. Then he went to the John Jay College in New York City, which he left with a Bachelor of Science in 1968. His Juris Doctor he made in 1973 at New York Law School in New York City. Between 1956 and 1959 he was in the U.S. Army. In 1975 he was appointed Deputy Commissioner in the State Division of Human Rights. He was Counsel in the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. Between 1983 and 1986 he sat in the New York State Assembly. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. Waldon took in the years 1984 and 1988 in part as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions.

It was on June 10, 1986 in a by-election in the sixth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the death of Joseph P. Addabbo. In 1986 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after March 3, 1987 the Congress of.

Waldon was appointed to the New York State Investigation Commission. He ran unsuccessfully in the by-election on 3 February 1998 for the vacant seat in the 105th Congress. Between 1990 and 2000 he sat in the Senate from New York. Since 2000 he has been judge of the New York Court of Claims.