Alton R. Waldon, Jr.

Alton R. Waldon, Jr.

Alton R. Waldon, Jr. (born 1936) was a Representative from New York. He was born in Lakeland, Florida on December 21, 1936. He graduated from Boys High School in Brooklyn, New York in 1954 and went on to earn a B.S. from John Jay College in New York City in 1968 and a J.D. from New York Law School in New York City in 1973.

Waldon served in the United States Army from 1956 - 1959. He was appointed deputy commissioner, State Division of Human Rights in 1975. He served as counsel in the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities. He was elected to the New York state assembly where he served from 1983 - 1986. Waldon was a delegate to the Democratic national convention in 1984 and 1988.

He elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-ninth Congress, by special election, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Joseph P. Addabbo. Waldon was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the One Hundredth Congress in 1986. He appointed to the New York state investigation commission; Waldon was an unsuccessful candidate for the special election to the One Hundred Fifth Congress on February 3, 1998. He served as a member of the New York state senate from 1991-2000. Since 2000, he has been a judge in the New York state court claims.


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