Don Fuqua

Don Fuqua ( born August 20, 1933, Jacksonville, Florida) is an American politician. Between 1963 and 1987 he represented the state of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

At the age of four years, Don Fuqua moved with his parents to a farm near Altha in Calhoun County, where he attended the public schools. Between 1951 and 1957 he studied at the University of Florida in Gainesville. From 1953 to 1955 Fuqua interrupted his studies to serve during the Korean War in the medical corps of the U.S. Army. After finishing his studies, he was engaged in farming. He operated a dairy farm, among others.

Politically Fuqua was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1958 and 1962 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Florida. In 1968 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, was nominated at the Hubert H. Humphrey for president. In the congressional elections of 1962 he was in the then newly created ninth electoral district of Florida in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 1963. After eleven re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1987 twelve legislatures. From 1967 he represented there as a successor of Charles Edward Bennett the second district of his state. From 1979 to 1987 he was Chairman of the Science and Technology Committee. In his time as a congressman fell among other things, the Vietnam War, the civil rights movement and the Watergate scandal. In addition, the 24th, the 25th and the 26th Amendment to the Constitution were adopted at that time.

In 1986, Don Fuqua renounced a new Congress candidacy. From 1987 to 1998 he was president of the Aerospace Industries Association of America. He now lives in retirement.