David F. Emery

David Farnham Emery ( born September 1, 1948 in Rockland, Knox County, Maine) is an American politician. Between 1975 and 1983 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Emery attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1970, the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. After leaving school, he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party. From 1970 to 1974, Emery MP in the House of Representatives from Maine. At that time he was chairman of his party in Rockland. In 1972, he was both a delegate to the regional Republican convention in Maine and for the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, on the U.S. President Richard Nixon was nominated for re-election.

In the congressional elections of 1974, he was the first electoral district of Maine, despite the adverse party for his Watergate scandal in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on January 3, 1975 to succeed Peter N. Kyros. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3rd, 1983 four legislative sessions. In 1982 he gave up another run for the House of Representatives. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate; he was defeated by Democrat George J. Mitchell. Between 1983 and 1988, Emery was Deputy Director of the Authority for gun control. In 1990, he strove equally unsuccessful in his return to the U.S. House of Representatives.

In 2006, Emery failed in the primaries for the gubernatorial elections in Maine. Behind the victorious Chandler Woodcock and Peter Mills, both members of the State Senate, he finished only third place. Woodcock then lost to Democratic incumbent John Baldacci.

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