Charles C. Edwards

(1923- ) born in Overton, Dawson County, lived at Kearney. Physician, research administrator, government official, educator, served as U.S. Commissioner of Food and Drug Administration from 1969 to 1973, then as Assistant Secretary of Health for the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare for two years in which he developed a significant reorganization plan; elected to Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences in 1984, was president of Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation until early 1990s. Consult Life, October 20, 1972, pp. 69-70, 72-74, 77-78, 81-82 and Current Biography (1973) 114-116 and American Men & Women of Science, Vol 2 (2003) 878.

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