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Edolphus Towns
1934–
United States
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Edolphus "Ed" Towns Jr. (born July 21, 1934) is an American educator, military veteran, and politician who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 2013. A Democrat from New York, Towns was chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee from 2009 to 2011.
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