Tim Valentine

Tim Valentine (1993)

Itimous Thaddeus "Tim" Valentine Jr. (born March 15, 1926 in Rocky Mount , North Carolina , † November 10, 2015 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1983 and 1995 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Tim Valentine attended public schools in Nashville , the county seat of Nash County . In the final phase of the Second World War he served between 1944 and 1946 in the US Army Air Corps , which later became the Air Force . Until 1948 attended Valentine then the military school The Citadel in Charleston ( South Carolina ). After studying law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and being admitted to the bar in 1952, he began working in his new profession in Nashville. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

Between 1955 and 1960 Valentine was an MP in the North Carolina House of Representatives ; from 1966 to 1968 he served as chairman of his party at the state level. In 1968 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where Hubert H. Humphrey was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the 1982 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded Lawrence H. Fountain on January 3, 1983 . After five re-elections, he was able to complete six legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1995 . In 1992 the 27th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.

In 1994 Valentine declined to run again. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he withdrew from politics.

Web links

• Tim Valentine in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Former Congressman Tim Valentine dies