Walter E. Fauntroy

Walter Edward Fauntroy ( born February 6, 1933, Washington DC) is an American politician. Between 1971 and 1991 he represented the Federal District District of Columbia as a non- voting delegate in the House of Representatives authorized the United States.

Career

Walter Fauntroy attended the public schools of his home. In 1952 he graduated from Dunbar High School in Washington DC Then he studied until 1955 at Virginia Union University in Richmond. This was followed up in 1958 to study theology at the theological faculty of Yale University. Since 1959 he was pastor at New Bethel Baptist Church. He joined the civil rights movement and became one of their leaders. Among other things, he was one of the organizers of the march on Washington in 1963. He founded the Model Inner City Community Organization, which he was president 1966-1972. From 1960 to 1971 he headed the Washington branch of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. He also held several offices in the social and ecclesiastical sphere. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party. In July 1972, he participated in Miami Beach as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention. In the years 1972 and 1976 he ran unsuccessfully in the primaries for the presidential election this year.

On March 23, 1971 Fauntroy was elected as a non-voting delegate to the Federal District District of Columbia in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he took up his new mandate on 23 March 1971. This position was then re-established after it had been abolished in 1874 after only four years of existence; single delegate had been during this period Norton P. Chipman. After nine elections Fauntroy could remain in Congress until January 3, 1991. In this time were, among others, the end of the Vietnam War and in 1974, the Watergate affair. In 1990 he gave up another candidacy. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for the post of mayor of Washington DC After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he founded a lobbying company. He continues to serve as a pastor and a staunch opponent of the Tea Party movement. With his wife, Dorothy Simms, he has two children.