Edmond Augustus Edmondson (1919 - 1990)

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Edmond Augustus Edmondson

Birth:	Apr. 7, 1919 Muskogee Muskogee County Oklahoma, USA
Death:	Dec. 8, 1990 Muskogee Muskogee County Oklahoma, USA
US Congress Representative from Oklahoma. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1940 and was a special agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Washington, D.C., 1940 to 1943. During WW II he served in the United States Navy, 1943 to 1946 and remained in the US Naval Reserve from 1946 to 1970. Graduating from Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. in 1947 and admitted to the Washington, D.C. bar, he became county attorney of Muskogee County, Oklahoma that same year. He was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-third and to the nine succeeding Congresses, January 3, 1953 to January 3, 1973. His last public service was as a delegate at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. His younger brother James H. Edmondson, was a US Senator from Oklahoma, passed away in 1971. (bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith) Search Amazon for Edmond Edmondson

Burial: Memorial Park Cemetery Muskogee Muskogee County Oklahoma, USA
Maintained by: Find A Grave Originally Created by: John "J-Cat" Griffith Record added: Mar 04, 2004 Find A Grave Memorial# 8469682