Don Edwards

William Donlon "Don" Edwards ( born January 6, 1915 in San Jose, California ) is a former American politician. Between 1963 and 1995 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Don Edwards attended the common schools and then studied until 1936 at Stanford University. After a subsequent law degree from the same university, he was admitted to the bar in 1940. In 1940 and 1941 he worked as a special investigator ( Special Agent ) for the FBI. During the Second World War, Edwards served between 1942 and 1945 in the U.S. Navy, where he occasionally worked in the secret service. Between 1951 and 1975 he was president of the company Valley Title Co. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1964 and 1968 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant.

In the congressional elections of 1962, Edwards was in the ninth constituency of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of J. Arthur Younger on January 3, 1963. After 15 re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1995, a total 16 legislative periods. From 1975 to 1993 he represented there as a successor of Charles S. Gubser the tenth constituency of his state, and since 1993, he was for the 16th district in Congress. Here he succeeds by Leon Panetta. In his time as a congressman fell among others, the final phase of the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal. 23 years, Edwards was the chairman of the Subcommittee on Civil Rights ( Subcommittee on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights ). He was also involved in the implementation of two impeachment of federal judges. One was the later Congressman Alcee Hastings of Florida. The other was Walter Nixon, by then federal judge in the southern part of the state of Mississippi.

In 1994, Don Edwards gave up another candidacy. He was married to the now deceased Edith Wilkie Edwards.