Edwin H. May Jr.

Edwin Hyland May Jr. was born on 28 May 1924 in Hartford, Connecticut. He graduated from Wethersfield High School in 1942 and from Wesleyan University in 1948. He served in the United States Army Air Corps, 1942-1945. He was an insurance and business executive. May was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fifth Congress (January 3, 1957-January 3, 1959); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Eighty-sixth Congress in 1958; Connecticut state Republican chairman, 1958-1962; unsuccessful candidate for Republican nomination for governor of Connecticut in 1962; delegate, Connecticut constitutional convention, 1965; and unsuccessful candidate for Republican nomination to United States Senate in 1968. He died on 20 February 2002 in Fort Pierce, Florida.

Source: “MAY, Edwin Hyland, Jr..” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/M000274.