{{Short description|American politician (1924–2002)}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Edwin H. May Jr. |image = Edwin H. May, Jr. (Connecticut Congressman).jpg |caption = |state = [[Connecticut]] |district = {{ushr|Connecticut|1|1st}} |term_start = January 3, 1957 |term_end = January 3, 1959 |predecessor = [[Thomas J. Dodd]] |successor = [[Emilio Q. Daddario]] |birth_name = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1924|5|28}} |birth_place = [[Hartford, Connecticut]], U.S. |death_date = {{Death date and age|2002|2|20|1924|5|28}} |death_place = [[Fort Pierce, Florida]], U.S. |party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] }}

'''Edwin Hyland May Jr.''' (May 28, 1924 – February 20, 2002) was an American businessman and politician who served as a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Connecticut]].

Born in [[Hartford, Connecticut]], May graduated from Wethersfield High School, [[Wethersfield, Connecticut]], 1942. He graduated from [[Wesleyan University]], [[Middletown, Connecticut]], 1948. He was in the [[United States Army Air Corps]] from 1942 to 1945. Thereafter, he was both a business and an insurance and executive. May was the co-chairman of the inaugural Insurance City Open (now the [[Travelers Championship]]) at the Wethersfield Country Club.

May was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the [[85th United States Congress|Eighty-fifth]] Congress in 1956. May voted in favor of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1957]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/h42|title=HR 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957.|work=GovTrack.us}}</ref> He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the [[86th United States Congress|Eighty-sixth]] Congress in 1958. May was Connecticut state Republican chairman from 1958 to 1962, an unsuccessful candidate for Republican nomination for governor of Connecticut in 1962, and a delegate to the Connecticut constitutional convention in 1965. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the [[United States Senate]] in 1968.

He died on February 20, 2002, in [[Fort Pierce, Florida]]. May was posthumously inducted into the Connecticut State Golf Association the same year.

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