Norman D'Amours

Norman D'Amours

Norman Edward D'Amours (born October 14, 1937 in Holyoke , Hampden County , Massachusetts ) is a former American politician . Between 1975 and 1985 he represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Norman D'Amours attended elementary school in his native Holyoke and then high school in Worcester . He was at Assumption College until 1960 before studying law at Boston University . In 1963 he was admitted to the bar. Between 1964 and 1967, D'Amours served in the US Army . Between 1966 and 1969 he served as the Assistant Attorney General of New Hampshire. He was then from 1970 to 1972 prosecutor in the city of Manchester .

D'Amours became a member of the Democratic Party , whose regional congresses in New Hampshire he attended as a delegate in 1970 and 1972. In 1972 he was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention . In 1974 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the first constituency of New Hampshire , where he succeeded Republican Louis C. Wyman on January 3, 1975 . After four re-elections, D'Amours was able to complete a total of five legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1985 .

In 1984 he did not stand for re-election. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate : with only 40.1 percent of the vote, he was clearly defeated by the Republican incumbent Gordon J. Humphrey (58.8 percent). D'Amours then worked as a lawyer in the federal capital Washington. In 1992, he ran unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for gubernatorial elections . Between 1993 and 2000, D'Amours was chairman of the National Credit Union Administration . Today he lives in Manchester.

Web links

• Norman D'Amours in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)