Ed Flanagan

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Edward "Ed" S. Flanagan (born December 18, 1950 in Washington, DC , † November 3, 2017 in New Hampshire ) was an American politician who was State Auditor of Vermont from 1993 to 2001 .

biography

Ed Flanagan was born in Washington, DC in 1950 to Bernard Lawrence Flanagan and Margaret Sawyer. His parents had moved there a year before he was born because his father worked for Senator George Aiken .

Flanagan graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1973 with a bachelor's degree in history and political science. At Harvard Law School , he earned a Juris Doctor in 1976 . His career began in 1977 while serving as a political analyst for Joseph Califano, Secretary of State for Health and Human Services, during the Jimmy Carter presidency . He then worked as an attorney in a Vermont law firm.

As a member of the Democratic Party , Flanagan was a State Auditor of Vermont from 1993 to 2001. Before being re-elected in 1996, Flanagan professed his homosexuality and was re-elected in the same year as the first nationwide politician to be publicly gay. In 1998 he was re-elected. In 2000 he ran for the Democratic Party for the United States Senate , making him the first US gay candidate to be nominated by a major party. He lost the election to Jim Jeffords . In this election and also in other elections he was supported by the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund .

In 2002 he ran as a candidate for Vermont State Treasurer , but was subject to Jeb Spaulding in this election . In 2004 he was nominated for the Chittenden Vermont Senate District in the Senate of Vermont selected. He won re-elections in 2006 and 2008, and in 2010 did not run for the Senate, but again for the office of State Auditor of Vermont. He lost the election to incumbent Thomas M. Salmon .

Private life

Ed Flanagan got his car off the road during a storm in November 2005. The car overturned and lay on the roof in a ditch by the road. Since he was only found by chance 18 hours after the accident, he was in the intensive care unit for a few weeks due to head injuries and hypothermia and a total of six months in the hospital. In May 2006 he returned to the Senate.

Flanagan lived with Isaac Lustgarten. He spent his final years in a nursing home in New Hampshire, where he died on November 3, 2017.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ken Picard: Continuing Ed. In: Seven Days. May 20, 2009, accessed November 4, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Flanagan, Ed . Our Campaigns, accessed November 4, 2017.
  3. ↑ Malcom Smith: A Vermont elected official comes out in response to rising homophobia in Congress . The Advocate , October 17, 1995, pp. 28-32, accessed November 4, 2017.
  4. ↑ Out and Elected in the USA: 1974-2004: Ed Flanagan, Vermont, 1992 . Out-History, accessed on November 4, 2017 (English).
  5. ↑ Sen. Flanagan seriously hurt in crash. Barre Montpelier Times Argus, November 19, 2005, archived from the original on February 5, 2012 ; accessed on November 4, 2017 (English).
  6. ↑ Sen. Flanagan's condition encouraging, family says. Ruthland Harald, December 2, 2005, archived from the original on June 20, 2015 ; accessed on November 4, 2017 (English).
  7. ^ Former Vermont State Senator Ed Flanagan Dies . Seven Days (Vermont), November 3, 2017, accessed November 4, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Flanagan, Ed
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flanagan, Edward Sawyer (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician, Vermont State Auditor
DATE OF BIRTH December 18, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 2017
Place of death New Hampshire