John A. Durkin

Infobox_Senator | name=John Anthony Durkin
nationality=American


jr/sr=United States Senator
state=New Hampshire
party=Democratic
term=September 18, 1975 – December 29, 1980
preceded=Norris H. Cotton
succeeded=Warren B. Rudman
date of birth=March 26, 1936
place of birth=Brookfield, Massachusetts
date of death=
place of death=
spouse=
religion=:"For the professor at the University of Akron, see John Durkin."

John Anthony Durkin (born March 29, 1936 in Brookfield, Massachusetts) was a Democratic U.S. Senator from New Hampshire from 1975 until 1980.

Durkin graduated from the College of the Holy Cross in 1959 and Georgetown University Law Center in 1965.

He was elected to the Senate as a Democrat in a special election in 1975 that settled the disputed November 1974 race involving him and US Representative Louis Wyman, and served until his resignation several days before the expiration of his term, in December 1980. Prior to his election to the Senate, Durkin served in the office of the New Hampshire Attorney General and served as New Hampshire's Insurance Commissioner.

He was defeated for re-election in 1980 by Warren Rudman. He sought the state's other Senate seat in 1990, and won the Democratic Party nomination, but was defeated handily by Republican nominee, Rep. Bob Smith.

External links

* [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000574 Congressional Biography]