Delaware United States Senators

United States Representative from Delaware
( January 3, 1977 to January 3, 1983 )

Born:November 5, 1931 - Nashville, Davidson County, Tenn.
Parents:Unknown
Married:Unknown
Children:Unknown
Attended the public schools of Old Hickory, Tenn., and Seaford, Del., 1936-1943; graduated from Woodberry Forest School, Orange, Va., 1947; B.A., 1953, LL.B., 1956, University of Virginia
Clerk to Chief Justice of Delaware Surpreme Court, 1955
Admitted to Virginia bar in 1956
Served in Delaware National Guard, 1956-1960
Engaged in insurance and mortgage brokerage business, Wilmington, Delaware, 1957-1968
Director, Delaware State Development Department, 1969-1970
Co-chairman and chief operating officer, Republican National Committee, 1971-1973
Delegate to Republican National Conventions, 1972, 1976, 1980
elected as a Republican to the Ninety-fifth, Ninety-sixth, and Ninety-seventh Congresses (January 3, 1977-January 3, 1983); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress, being defeated by State Treasurer "Thomas Richard Carper"
Member of law firm of Manatt, Phelps, Rothenberg & Evans in Washington, D.C.
Home:Wilmington, Delaware

United States Representative from Delaware
( January 3, 1955 to January 3, 1957 )
( January 3, 1959 to January 3, 1967 )

Born:February 10, 1906 - farm near Middletown, Delaware
Parents:Unknown
Married:Unknown
Children:Unknown
Attended the public schools of Middletown, Wilmington (Delaware) High School, and the Y.M.C.A. schools; graduated from Beacom Business College, Wilmington, Del
Engaged in farming, also in the insurance and real estate business
Member of the Delaware State Board of Agriculture, 1937-1940
Served in the Delaware State House of Representatives, 1940-1942
Served in the Delaware State Senate, 1942-1946
Secretary of State for Delaware, 1949-1953
Member of New Castle County Zoning Commission in 1953 and 1954
Delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1944, 1948, 1952, 1956, and 1960
Elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-fourth Congress and served from January 3, 1955 to January 3, 1957; was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1956 to the Eighty-fifth Congress being defeated by "Harry G. Haskell, Jr."
Elected to the Eighty-sixth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1959 to January 3, 1967; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1966 to the Ninetieth Congress being defeated by "William V. Roth"
Federal State coordinator for Delaware, 1967-1968
Retired; was a resident of Middletown, Del., until his death
Died:November, 1988 - Middletown, Delaware
Interred:Forest Cemetery, Middletown, Delaware
Home:Unknown
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United States Representative from Delaware
( January 3, 1957 to January 3, 1959 )

Born:May 27, 1921 - Wilmington, Delaware
Parents:Unknown
Married:Unknown
Children:Unknown
Educated at Tower Hill School, Wilmington, Delaware, and St. Mark’s School, Southboro, Mass.; attended Princeton University 1940-1942
Enlisted in the United States Coast Guard Reserve September 8, 1942, made an ensign in 1943, and was discharged as a lieutenant (jg) in 1946
Personnel manager of Speakman Co., 1947-1948
President of Greenhill Dairies, Inc., 1948-1953
Secretary of the Departmental Council of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare 1953-1954
Consultant to special assistant to "President Dwight Eisenhower" in 1955
Owner and operator of Hill Girt Farm, Chadds Ford, Pa.
President of University of Delaware Research Foundation
Delegate, Republican National Conventions, 1952-1984
Elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fifth Congress (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1959); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958 to the Eighty-sixth Congress
Resumed former business interests
Elected Mayor of Wilmington, Delaware, for four-year term commencing January 7, 1969
Member, Presidents National Reading Council, appointed September 1970
President, Abercrombie and Fitch
Home:Chadds Ford, Pa.

United States Representative from Delaware
( January 3, 1953 to January 3, 1955 )

Born:September 21, 1916 - Wilmington, Delaware
Parents:Unknown
Married:Unknown
Children:Unknown
Attended the public schools of Wilmington, Delaware, and Reading, Pa.; graduated from University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, in June 1938, and from Dickinson School of Law, Carlisle, Pa., in June 1941
Took reserve officers training course at University of Delaware and commissioned a second lieutenant
Began active Army duty as first lieutenant of the One Hundred and Twenty-second Antiaircraft Battalion in September 1941
Graduated from Command and General Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kans., in September 1945 and became battalion commander in October 1945
Was relieved from active duty as a major in December 1945
Admitted to the Delaware bar in absentia in April 1942 and began the practice of law in Wilmington, Delaware after being relieved from active Army service
City of Wilmington, Delaware Solicitor 1949-1952
Elected as a Republican to the Eighty-third Congress and served from January 3, 1953 to January 3, 1955; was not a candidate for renomination in 1954 but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate losing to incumbant Senator "J. Allen Frear"
Appointed special assistant to U.S. Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell March 2, 1955, and served until November 7, 1957
General Counsel, U.S. Post Office Department, from November 7, 1957, to January 20, 1961
Minority Counsel to the U.S. House Government Operations subcommittee, serving from March 1961 to September 1964
Executive Director, American Orthotics and Prosthetics Association and the American Board for Certification in Orthotics and Prosthetics
Was a resident of Frankford, Delaware, until his death
Died:Lewes, Delaware - July 30, 1983 - Age 67
Interred:Cremated and family retained ashes
Home:Unknown

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