Norman Edward D'Amours was a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives

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 from New Hampshire

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 from 1975 to 1985, where he was an active participant on issues related to banking and finance. Mr. D'Amours remains active in New Hampshire and national politics. He is a partner in Dierman, Wortley, Zola & Associates in Washington, DC. He is a graduate of Assumption College

Assumption College

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 and the Boston University

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 law school. Instead of running for a 6th term in the House of Representatives, he ran for the United States Senate in 1984 against Republican incumbent Gordon J. Humphrey

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 and lost with 41%.

After his retirement from Congress, President Bill Clinton

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 appointed him as the chairman of the National Credit Union Administration

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 (NCUA) and he was subsequently unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate

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. For seven years as chairman of NCUA, he managed this federal government agency with oversight over eleven thousand institutions managing $400 billion in assets.

D'Amours had also served as assistant attorney general for the state of New Hampshire from 1966 to 1969, and as city prosecutor of Manchester, New Hampshire

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from 1970 to 1972. Prior to his government service, D'Amours was a practicing attorney in New Hampshire.