David F. Emery

David F. Emery

David Farnham Emery (born September 1, 1948 in Rockland , Knox County , Maine ) is an American politician . Between 1975 and 1983 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

David Emery attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1970 the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts . After leaving school, he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . From 1970 to 1974, Emery was an MP in the Maine House of Representatives . At that time he was chairman of his party in Rockland. In 1972 he was a delegate to both the regional Republican Party Congress in Maine and the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach , where US President Richard Nixon was nominated for re-election.

In the 1974 congressional elections, he was elected to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Maine, despite the Watergate affair that was damaging to his party . There he took over from Peter N. Kyros on January 3, 1975 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1983 . In 1982 he renounced another candidacy for the House of Representatives. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate ; he was defeated by the Democrat George J. Mitchell . Between 1983 and 1988, Emery was the deputy director of the Gun Control Authority. In 1990 he sought his return to the US House of Representatives just as unsuccessfully.

In 2006, Emery failed in the primary election for the Maine gubernatorial election . Behind the victorious Chandler Woodcock and Peter Mills , both members of the State Senate , he only finished third. Woodcock then lost to the Democratic incumbent John Baldacci .

Web links

• David F. Emery in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)