THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, November 9, 1994 TAG: 9411090341
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B1 EDITION: NORTH CAROLINA
SOURCE: STAFF REPORT
LENGTH: Short : 39 lines
Democratic Congresswoman Eva M. Clayton retained her seat in the U.S. House Tuesday, beating back the challenge of Republican Ted Tyler for the second time.
Clayton, the first woman and the first black elected to Congress from North Carolina in the 20th century, pulled away as soon as the polls closed.
The district was drawn by the General Assembly as a thin strip stretching through 28 counties from the Virginia border to South Carolina and designed to improve the chances of blacks to win a seat in Congress.
Clayton took 59 percent of the vote in early returns, compared to 41 percent for Tyler.
Clayton, 55, first won the seat in 1992, defeating Tyler with 68 percent of the vote in the heavily Democratic district.
Clayton, a resident of Littleton, is president and owner of Technical Resources International Ltd., a consulting firm specializing in economic and community development.
She first ran for Congress in the 1960s, and served as a Warren County commissioner from 1982 to 1990. She is a former assistant secretary of the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community Development.
As part of the wave of new members elected to the U.S. House in 1992, Clayton was elected president of the freshman class for the first session.
Tyler, 59, lives in Rich Square, where he served as mayor for nine years. ILLUSTRATION: Photo
Eva Clayton
KEYWORDS: ELECTION NORTH CAROLINA RESULTS by CNB