William Donlon Edwards was an American politician of the Democratic Party and a member of the United States House of Representatives from California for 32 years in the late 20th century.
14 Facts About Don Edwards
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Don Edwards then attended Stanford Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1940.
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Don Edwards was a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1940 to 1941, when he joined the United States Navy as a naval intelligence and gunnery officer during World War II.
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Don Edwards was the president of Valley Title Company of Santa Clara County from 1951 to 1975, and a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1964 and 1968.
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Don Edwards was elected as a member of the Democratic Party to the 88th from the 10th Congressional District and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses.
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Don Edwards was involved in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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Don Edwards was a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the investigation of the Watergate scandal.
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Don Edwards opposed the US military involvement in the Vietnam War, the invasion of Panama, and the Persian Gulf War.
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Don Edwards was one of eight members of the Judiciary Committee to vote for all five articles of impeachment drafted against President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal.
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Don Edwards was one of the House impeachment managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1988 to conduct the impeachment trial of Alcee Hastings, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
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Don Edwards was the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights for 23 years.
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Don Edwards was not a candidate for reelection to the 104th Congress.
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Don Edwards was married three times; he was married to Edith Wilkie Edwards from 1981 until her death in 2011.
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Don Edwards died later that year on October 1,2015.