Alton R. Waldon Junior

Alton R. Waldon Junior

Alton R. Waldon junior (born December 21, 1936 in Lakeland , Florida ) is an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives in 1986 and 1987 .

Career

Alton R. Waldon Jr. graduated from Boys High School in Brooklyn in 1954 . Then he went to John Jay College in New York City , which he left in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science . He received his Juris Doctor from New York Law School in New York City in 1973 . Between 1956 and 1959 he was in the US Army . In 1975 he was made a Deputy Commissioner in the State Division of Human Rights . He was counsel in the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities . Between 1983 and 1986 he was a member of the New York State Assembly . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . Waldon participated as a delegate in the Democratic National Conventions in 1984 and 1988 .

He was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC on June 10, 1986 in a by-election in the sixth constituency of New York to fill the vacancy created by the death of Joseph P. Addabbo . In 1986 he suffered a defeat in his re-election and resigned from Congress on March 3, 1987 .

Waldon was appointed to the New York State Investigation Commission . He ran unsuccessfully in the by-election on February 3, 1998 for the vacant seat in the 105th Congress . Between 1990 and 2000 he was a member of the New York Senate . He has been a judge at the New York Court of Claims since 2000 .

Web links

• Alton R. Waldon junior in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)