Norman D'Amours

Norman Edward D' Amours ( born October 14, 1937 in Holyoke, Hampden County, Massachusetts ) is a retired American politician. Between 1975 and 1985 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Norman D' Amours attended elementary school in his hometown and then the Holyoke High School in Worcester. By 1960 he was at Assumption College, before he studied at the Boston University law. In 1963 he was admitted to the bar. Between 1964 and 1967, D' Amours served in the U.S. Army. Between 1966 and 1969 he served as Deputy Attorney General of New Hampshire. After that, he was from 1970 to 1972 a prosecutor in the city of Manchester.

D' Amours was a member of the Democratic Party, whose regional party days in New Hampshire, he attended between 1970 and 1972 as a delegate. In 1972 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. In 1974 he was elected in the first district of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of the Republican Louis C. Wyman on January 3, 1975. After four elections D' Amours was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1985 a total of five legislative sessions.

In 1984, he did not stand for re- election. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for the Senate of the United States: With only 40.1 percent of the vote he lost the Republican incumbent Gordon J. Humphrey ( 58.8 percent) significantly. Then D' Amours worked as a lawyer in the capital Washington. In 1992 he applied unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the gubernatorial elections. Between 1993 and 2000, D' Amours was chairman of the National Credit Union Administration. He now lives in Manchester.