- Edwin H. Whitehead
Infobox_ State Representative
name= Edwin H. "Ed" Whitehead
office= Wyoming State Representative from Laramie County
party= Democrat
term_start=January 1 ,1967
term_end=December 31 ,1972
preceded= At-large seat
succeeded= At-large seat
date of birth= birth date |1925|2|26
date of death= death date and age|2007|5|20|1925|2|26
place of death=Cheyenne,Wyoming , USA
place of birth= Burns inLaramie County, Wyoming
religion=
occupation=Lawyer
spouse= Janet C. Davis Whitehead
children= (1) Michael Whitehead; (2) Karen W. Dilks, (3) Laura W. DitgesEdwin H. "Ed" Whitehead (
February 26 ,1925 -May 20 ,2007 ) was alawyer in Cheyenne, a former Democratic member of theWyoming House of Representatives , and an early supporter ofJohn F. Kennedy for the American presidency.Whitehead was one of five children born to Douglas and Edith Whitehead in Burns, a small community in Laramie County near Cheyenne, the Wyoming state capital. On
October 7 ,1950 , he married the former Janet C. Davis (born ca. 1930). He served in both theUnited States Navy andUnited States Army during bothWorld War II and theKorean War .Whitehead was a partner in the firm Whitehead, Gage & Davidson, but in his later career he was a sole practitioner. He was a past chairman of the Laramie County Democratic Central Committee, a former president of Young Democrats of Wyoming, and a member of the American and Laramie County bar associations. In 1960, he was a delegate at the
Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, which assembled the Kennedy-Johnson ticket. He served three terms in the Wyoming House from 1967-1972.Whitehead died in Cheyenne. He had a son, Michael Whitehead of
Kimberton, Pennsylvania ; two daughters, Karen Dilks ofSedona, Arizona , and Laura Ditges ofBroomfield, Colorado ; a brother, Walter Whitehead ofPendleton, Oregon ; and two sisters, Carrie Shenefelt ofOgden, Utah , and Irma Dewey ofCottonwood, Arizona , and four grandchildren.Whitehead was
cremated at Cheyenne Memorial Gardens under the direction of Wiederspahn-Radomsky Chapel of the Chimes.Three other former Cheyenne lawmakers, all Republicans, died within a month of Whitehead's passing:
Joseph D. Selby onApril 20 ,Larry D. Shippy onJune 8 , andRobert Schliske onJune 21 , 2007, respectively.References
http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2007/05/24/obituaries/01obit_5-24-07.txt
http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=122465
http://pview.findlaw.com/view/3394750_1
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