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|image = Don Edwards.jpg |name = Don Edwards |imagesize = 200px |birth_name=William Donlon Edwards |birth_date = {{birth date|1915|1|06}} |birth_place = San Jose, California, U.S. |death_date ={{nowrap| {{death date and age|2015|10|01|1915|1|06}} }} |death_place =Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, U.S. |alma_mater=Stanford University Stanford Law School |allegiance={{Flag|United States|1912}} |branch=United States Navy |battles= World War II |spouse={{marriage|Edith Wilkie Edwards|1981|2011|end=d.}} |office = Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California |constituency =9th district (1963–1975) 10th district (1975–1993) 16th district (1993–1995) |term_start = January 3, 1963 |term_end = January 3, 1995 |preceded = J. Arthur Younger |succeeded = Zoe Lofgren |party = Democratic | otherparty =Republican (before 1962) }} William Donlon "Don" Edwards (January 6, 1915 – October 1, 2015) was an American politician of the Democratic Party and a member of the United States House of Representatives from California. Early lifeEdwards was born in San Jose, California to Republican parents. His father and grandfather owned a land title business.[1] After graduating from San Jose High School, before earning a B.A. from Stanford University in 1936, where he was member of the Stanford golf team. Edwards then attended Stanford Law School[2] and was admitted to the bar in 1940. 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. In 1950, he was elected president of the California Young Republicans, resigning after joining the United World Federalists.[1] Perceiving the Republican Party as becoming too conservative, he became a Democrat prior to his first congressional election victory in 1962.[2][5] He 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. United States representative (1963-95)Edwards was elected as a member of the Democratic Party to the 88th from the 10th Congressional District (later redistricted to the 16th Congressional District) and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1995). In his first year in the House, Edwards voted to abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee. Edwards was involved in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Edwards was a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the investigation of the Watergate scandal. Edwards opposed the U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War, the invasion of Panama, and the Persian Gulf War.[1] Edwards was one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1988 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Alcee Hastings, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, and again in 1989 to conduct impeachment proceedings against Walter Nixon, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi.[2] Edwards was the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights for 23 years. Edwards was not a candidate for reelection to the 104th Congress.[3] Personal life and deathDon Edwards was married three times;[4] he was married to Edith Wilkie Edwards from 1981 until her death in 2011.[5] He turned 100 in January 2015.[6] He died later that year on October 1, 2015.[7] LegacyEdwards received the Congressional Distinguished Service Award in 2003.[1] The Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge in the south end of San Francisco Bay is named in his honor. See also{{Portal|Biography}}References1. ^1 2 3 Obituary, latimes.com; accessed October 3, 2015. 2. ^https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal89-1138585{{dead link|date=December 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 3. ^https://lofgren.house.gov/biography/ 4. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/03/us/politics/don-edwards-congressman-who-championed-civil-rights-dies-at-100.html|title=Don Edwards, Congressman Who Championed Civil Rights, Dies at 100|work=nytimes.com}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/2011/04/04/herhold-edie-wilkie-a-life-well-lived/|title=Herhold: Edie Wilkie: A life well lived|work=mercurynews.com}} 6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/scott-herhold/ci_27267905/ex-u-s-rep-don-edwards-turns-100|title=Herhold: Ex-U.S. Rep. Don Edwards turns 100|work=mercurynews.com|accessdate=October 3, 2015}} 7. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/10/02/former-rep-don-edwards-1915-2015/|title=Former Rep. Don Edwards: 1915-2015|work=San Jose Mercury News|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128054747/http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_28912287/former-rep-don-edwards-1915-2015|archivedate=January 28, 2016|accessdate=July 25, 2018}} External links{{CongBio|E000064}}
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