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Edgar May

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Edgar May (June 27, 1929 – December 27, 2012)[1][2] was an American journalist and politician. He served in the Vermont House of Representatives 1973–1983 and the Vermont Senate 1983–1991 and he was the elder brother of three-term Vermont Governor Madeleine May Kunin.

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Vermont House of Representatives

Vermont House of Representatives

The Vermont House of Representatives is the lower house of the Vermont General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Vermont. The House comprises 150 members, with each member representing around 4,100 citizens. Representatives are elected to a two-year term without term limits.

Vermont Senate

Vermont Senate

The Vermont Senate is the upper house of the Vermont General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Vermont. The senate consists of 30 members elected from multi-member districts. Each senator represents at least 20,300 citizens. Senators are elected to two-year terms and there is no limit to the number of terms that a senator may serve.

Governor of Vermont

Governor of Vermont

The governor of Vermont is the head of government of the U.S. state of Vermont. The officeholder is elected in even-numbered years by direct voting for a term of two years. Vermont and bordering New Hampshire are the only states to hold gubernatorial elections every two years, instead of every four as in the other 48 U.S. states.

Life and career

May was born in Zürich, Switzerland, and moved to the United States in 1940. He was raised in New Jersey, graduating from high school in Princeton, and then worked as a clerk at The New York Times while studying at Columbia University.[3]

During the Korean War, May served in the United States Army, assigned as a speechwriter for commanders and staff based at Fort Sheridan, Illinois. He graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in journalism in 1957.[4]

May worked as a reporter for the Bellows Falls Times, Fitchburg Sentinel, and Buffalo Evening News. While at the Buffalo Evening News in 1960, he investigated the New York State welfare system, and won the annual Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting, No Edition Time (a predecessor of the Investigative Reporting Prize), citing "his series of articles on New York State's public welfare services entitled, "Our Costly Dilemma", based in part on his three-month employment as a State case worker. The series brought about reforms that attracted nationwide attention."[5][6] The series led to a book, The Wasted Americans: cost of our welfare dilemma, published by Harper & Row in 1964.[7][8]

He worked in the Johnson administration, including assisting Sargent Shriver in operating the Peace Corps and as Deputy Director of the Domestic Peace Corps, which later became Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA).[9]

May was a consultant for the Ford Foundation from 1970 to 1975, and wrote for Corrections Magazine.[10][11]

A Democrat, he served in the Vermont House of Representatives from 1975 to 1983. He was a member of the Vermont Senate from 1983 to 1991, and was chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.[12]

From 1993 to 1996 May was Chief Operating Officer of the Special Olympics.[13]

In retirement May was active in several civic and municipal projects in his hometown, Springfield, Vermont.[14]

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New Jersey

New Jersey is the most densely populated U.S. state. A coastal state, New Jersey is situated at the center of the Northeast megalopolis, the most populous American urban agglomeration. The state lies within both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. New Jersey is bordered on its north and east by the state of New York; on its east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on its west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on its southwest by Delaware Bay and the state of Delaware. At 7,354 square miles (19,050 km2), New Jersey is the fifth-smallest state in land area, but with close to 9.3 million residents as of the 2020 United States census, its highest decennial count ever, ranks 11th in population. The state capital is Trenton, and the most populous city is Newark. New Jersey is the only U.S. state in which every county is deemed urban by the U.S. Census Bureau, with 13 counties included in the New York metropolitan area, seven counties in the Philadelphia metropolitan area, and with Warren County constituting part of the rapidly industrializing Lehigh Valley metropolitan area.

Princeton, New Jersey

Princeton, New Jersey

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The New York Times

The New York Times

The New York Times, also referred to as the Gray Lady, is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2022 to comprise 740,000 paid print subscribers, and 8.6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as The Daily. Founded in 1851, it is published by The New York Times Company. The Times has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national "newspaper of record". For print, it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the United States. The newspaper is headquartered at The New York Times Building in Times Square, Manhattan.

Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University is a private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhattan, it is the oldest institution of higher education in New York, the fifth-oldest in the United States, and one of nine colonial colleges founded prior to the Declaration of Independence.

Korean War

Korean War

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Fort Sheridan, Illinois

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Northwestern University

Northwestern University

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Pulitzer Prize

Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award administered by Columbia University for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made his fortune as a newspaper publisher. Prizes are awarded annually in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$15,000 cash award. The winner in the public service category is awarded a gold medal.

Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

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Sargent Shriver

Sargent Shriver

Robert Sargent Shriver Jr. was an American diplomat, politician, and activist. As the husband of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, he was part of the Kennedy family. Shriver was the driving force behind the creation of the Peace Corps, and founded the Job Corps, Head Start, VISTA, Upward Bound, and other programs as the architect of the 1960s War on Poverty. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for vice president in the 1972 presidential election.

Peace Corps

Peace Corps

The Peace Corps is an independent agency and program of the United States government that trains and deploys volunteers to provide international development assistance. It was established in March 1961 by an executive order of President John F. Kennedy and authorized by Congress the following September by the Peace Corps Act.

AmeriCorps VISTA

AmeriCorps VISTA

AmeriCorps VISTA is a national service program designed to alleviate poverty. President John F. Kennedy originated the idea for VISTA, which was founded as Volunteers in Service to America in 1965, and incorporated into the AmeriCorps network of programs in 1993. VISTA is an acronym for Volunteers in Service to America.

Death

May died on December 27, 2012, in Tucson, Arizona, aged 83, from complications of a stroke he had suffered three weeks earlier.[15]

Source: "Edgar May", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2023, March 17th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_May.

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Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting

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John G. Sargent

The Buffalo News

Robert Stafford

Solomon Foot

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Charles Manley Smith

Lute Pease

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Walter K. Farnsworth

Fred M. Butler

List of Pulitzer Prizes awarded to The Buffalo News

E. Maude Ferguson
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References
  1. ^ "Edgar May" Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine. Vermont Folklife Center Radio.
  2. ^ Rutland Herald, "Springfield icon Edgar May dies" Archived 2013-10-29 at the Wayback Machine, December 27, 2012.
  3. ^ Heinz Dietrich Fischer, Erika J. Fischer, Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners 1917–2000, page 156.
  4. ^ Times Argus, "Edgar May, Obituary", December 29, 2012.
  5. ^ "Local Reporting; No Edition Time". The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
  6. ^ The Boston Globe (Associated Press), "Former Vt. state lawmaker Edgar May dies", December 27, 2012.
  7. ^ "The wasted Americans; cost of our welfare dilemma". Library of Congress Catalog Record. Retrieved 2013-10-26.
  8. ^ Scott Stossel, Sarge: The Life and Times of Sargent Shriver, 2011.
  9. ^ Annelise Orleck, Lisa Gayle Hazirjian, The War on Poverty: A New Grassroots History, 1964–1980, 2011, page 95.
  10. ^ The New York Times, "The Involved", July 1, 1972. (subscription required)
  11. ^ Criminal Justice Publications, Corrections Magazine, Volume 9, 1983, page 2.
  12. ^ Buffalo Evening News, "Edgar May, Pulitzer winner for The Buffalo News, dies in Arizona", December 28, 2012.
  13. ^ Brattleboro Reformer, "Edgar May to Receive the Leland Award", April 16, 2009.
  14. ^ Susan Smallheer, Rutland Herald, "Springfield to Honor Edgar May", June 26, 2009.
  15. ^ Regina Ford, Sahuarita Sun, "GV Resident, Vermont Icon Edgar May Dies", December 28, 2012
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