Edwin Russell Durno

Edwin Russell Durno ( born January 26, 1899 at the Linn County, Oregon, † November 20, 1976 in Medford, Oregon ) was an American politician. Between 1961 and 1963 he represented the fourth electoral district of the state of Oregon in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edwin Durno attended the public schools in Silverton and thereafter until 1921, the University of Oregon. During this time, he was a successful basketball player; later, he was taken by his performance in the Oregon Sports Hall of Fame. His studies were interrupted by the First World War, in which he participated as a sergeant in the infantry. From 1921 to 1923 he was a teacher and athletics coach. Then he studied until 1927 at the Harvard University Medical.

After qualifying as a doctor Durno opened in 1927 in a Boston practice. During the Second World War, he was a Major in a medical unit. For his services during the war he was awarded the Purple Heart. After the war he returned to Oregon, where he worked as a doctor in Medford. Between 1947 and 1958 he was also a member of the Medical Committee ( Board of Medical Examiners ) of Oregon.

Edwin Durno was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1958 and 1960 he sat in the Senate of Oregon. In 1960 he was selected in the fourth electoral district of Oregon in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he replaced Charles O. Porter on January 3, 1961. In 1962 Durno gave up another candidacy. Instead, he sought unsuccessfully to his party's nomination for the U.S. Senate. After the end of his political activity in Congress Durno returned to Medford, where he worked as a doctor again. He is also passed in 1976.