William T. Redmond

William Thomas " Bill" Redmond ( born January 28, 1955 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American politician. Between 1997 and 1999 he represented the third electoral district of the state of New Mexico in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years

Bill Redmond attended Gage Park High School, the. Lincoln Christian College, Lincoln Christian Seminary in Illinois and Murray State University in Kentucky He was ordained as a minister and was, as such, between 1980 and 1983 a member of the reserve of the U.S. Army. He also became a teacher and priest in Santa Fe in New Mexico. Among other things, he lectured at the branch of the University of New Mexico at Los Alamos.

Political career

Redmond was a member of the Republican Party and served on the board of the party in New Mexico. In the congressional elections of 1996 he ran unsuccessfully against Bill Richardson of the Democratic Party for the U.S. House of Representatives. However, Richardson resigned from the Congress was only a few months after his election, to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The overdue elections could then decide Redmond with only 3,000 votes ahead of his rival candidate Eric Serna for themselves. Redmond took his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives on 13 May 1997 and kept it until the end of its term on January 3, 1999. At the 1998 election he was defeated with 47:53 percent of the vote against Tom Udall, of him then on 4 January 1999 replaced in Congress.