Edwin H. May, Jr.

Edwin Hyland May ( born May 28, 1924 in Hartford, Connecticut; † 20 February 2002 in Fort Pierce, Florida ) was an American politician. Between 1957 and 1959 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edwin May attended until 1942 the Wethersfield High School. His further education was interrupted by the Second World War, in which he participated between 1942 and 1945 in the U.S. Army Air Corps. After the war he continued his studies until 1948 continued at Wesleyan University in Middletown. He then began working in the insurance industry.

Politically, May member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1956 he was in the first district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat Thomas J. Dodd on January 3, 1957. But since he lost to Emilio Q. Daddario already at the next elections in 1958, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1959.

Between 1958 and 1962, May was party leader of the Republicans in Connecticut. In 1962 he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the gubernatorial elections. May 1965 was a delegate to a meeting to revise the constitution of Connecticut; in 1968, he sought unsuccessfully to his party's nomination for the U.S. Senate. After that, he is no longer politically have appeared. Edwin May died on 20 February 2002 in Florida.