Edwin H. May, Jr.

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Edwin H. May, Jr. (Connecticut Congressman)

Edwin Hyland May, Jr. (May 28, 1924 – February 20, 2002) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, May graduated from Wethersfield High School, Wethersfield, Connecticut, 1942. He graduated from Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 1948. He was in the United States Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1945. Thereafter, he was both a business and an insurance and executive. May was the co-chairman of the inaugural Insurance City Open (now the Travelers Championship) at the Wethersfield Country Club.

May was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fifth Congress (January 3, 1957 – January 3, 1959). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Eighty-sixth Congress in 1958.

May was Connecticut state Republican chairman from 1958 to 1962, an unsuccessful candidate for Republican nomination for governor of Connecticut in 1962, and a delegate to the Connecticut constitutional convention in 1965. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1968.

He died on February 20, 2002, in Fort Pierce, Florida. His remains were cremated. Following his death, May was inducted into the Connecticut State Golf Association in 2002.

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Connecticut's 1st congressional district

1957–1959
Succeeded by
Emilio Q. Daddario