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Edolphus Towns
Edolphus Towns, Jr. (born July 21, 1934) is an American politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 2013. A Democrat from New York, Towns was Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee from 2009 to 2011.
During his 30 years in Congress, Towns represented districts based in Brooklyn: first , from 1983 to 1993, and then the from 1993 to 2013. On April 16, 2012, Towns announced he would be retiring at the end of his 15th term.
==Early life, education, and early career==
Towns was born in Chadbourn, North Carolina, the son of Versie (née Brown) and Edolphus Towns.〔http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ebattle/reps/towns.htm〕 He earned his bachelor's degree from North Carolina A&T State University and a master's degree in social work from Adelphi University.
Towns worked as an administrator at Beth Israel Medical Center, a professor at New York's Medgar Evers College and Fordham University and a public school teacher, teaching orientation and mobility to blind students. He is also a veteran of the United States Army and an ordained Baptist minister. In 1970, he ran for New York Assembly District 38, and was defeated in the Democratic primary by John Mullally, 75%-25%.〔(1970 campaign info, Cummings v Mullally )〕 In 1972, he ran in District 40 and was defeated in the Democratic primary by Edward Griffith, who won the primary with a plurality of 37%.〔(1972 campaign info, Cummings v Griffith )〕
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