tim valentine

Itimous Thaddeus Valentine, Jr. (born March 15, 1926), generally known as Tim Valentine, was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from North Carolina from 1983 to 1995. Valentine was born in Rocky Mount, North Carolina and attended public schools. During World War II he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps (now the United States Air Force) and served on active duty from 1944 to 1946. He graduated from The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina in 1948, and graduated from the law school of the University of North Carolina in 1952, being admitted to the North Carolina bar that same year. Valentine served in the North Carolina House of Representatives from 1955 to 1960, and later chaired the executive committee of the North Carolina Democratic Party. He was a delegate to the 1968 Democratic National Convention. In 1982 he was elected to Congress and served six terms in the House of Representatives. He did not stand for reeelection in 1994 and retired from elected office when his term expired early the next year. Valentine, Time Some of the material in this article is derived from the public domain Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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