Biography:

Edolphus Towns was born in Chadbourn, N.C., and lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. He received a bachelor's degree in 1956 from North Carolina A&T University and a master's degree in social work from Adelphi University in 1973.

He taught in the New York City Public School system and worked in health care, minority education and community programs in the city. He was director of the Metropolitan Hospital and was assistant administrator at Beth Israel Hospital, 1965-75. Towns taught at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn.

He was executive assistant to Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden and was deputy borough president from 1978 to 1982. He was first elected to the U.S. House in 1982.

Towns and his wife, Gwendolyn, have two children.

Past Campaigns:

Edolphus Towns was elected to the U.S. House in 1982 with 84 percent of the vote, beating Republican Joseph Caesar. Towns has been re-elected easily every two years since then.

He survived a closer-than-usual primary challenge in 2000, defeating lawyer Barry Ford with 57 percent of the vote. He was re-elected in 2000 with 90 percent of the vote over Republican Ernestine Brown.

In 2002, he was unopposed.

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