Later Career
In 1984 du Pont served as Chairman of the Education Commission of the States, a national organization of educators dedicated to improving all facets of American education. He has also served as Chairman of the Hudson Institute from 1985 until 1987 and the National Review Institute from 1994 until 1997.
Presently, du Pont is the Chairman of the Board for the National Center for Policy Analysis, a think tank based in Dallas, Texas; he is a director with the Wilmington, Delaware law firm of Richards, Layton, and Finger, and he writes the monthly Outside the Box column for the Wall Street Journal newspaper.
| Public Offices | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Office | Type | Location | Began office | Ended office | notes | |
| State Representative | Legislature | Dover | January 14, 1969 | January 3, 1971 | ||
| U.S. Representative | Legislature | Washington | January 3, 1971 | January 3, 1973 | ||
| U.S. Representative | Legislature | Washington | January 3, 1973 | January 3, 1975 | ||
| U.S. Representative | Legislature | Washington | January 3, 1975 | January 3, 1977 | ||
| Governor | Executive | Dover | January 18, 1977 | January 20, 1981 | ||
| Governor | Executive | Dover | January 20, 1981 | January 15, 1985 | ||
| Delaware General Assembly service | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dates | Assembly | Chamber | Majority | Governor | Committees | District |
| 1969–1970 | 125th | State House | Republican | Russell W. Peterson | New Castle 12th | |
| United States Congressional service | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dates | Congress | Chamber | Majority | President | Committees | Class/District |
| 1971–1973 | 92nd | U.S. House | Democratic | Richard M. Nixon | at-large | |
| 1973–1975 | 93rd | U.S. House | Democratic | Richard M. Nixon Gerald R. Ford |
at-large | |
| 1975–1977 | 94th | U.S. House | Democratic | Gerald R. Ford | at-large | |
| Election results | ||||||||||||
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| Year | Office | Election | Subject | Party | Votes | % | Opponent | Party | Votes | % | ||
| 1970 | U.S. Representative | General | Pierre S. du Pont, IV | Republican | 86,125 | 54% | John D. Daniello | Democratic | 71,429 | 46% | ||
| 1972 | U.S. Representative | General | Pierre S. du Pont, IV | Republican | 141,237 | 63% | Norma Handloft | Democratic | 83,230 | 37% | ||
| 1974 | U.S. Representative | General | Pierre S. du Pont, IV | Republican | 93,826 | 58% | James S. Soles | Democratic | 63,490 | 40% | ||
| 1976 | Governor | General | Pierre S. du Pont, IV | Republican | 130,531 | 57% | Sherman W. Tribbitt | Democratic | 97,480 | 42% | ||
| 1980 | Governor | General | Pierre S. du Pont, IV | Republican | 159,004 | 71% | William J. Gordy | Democratic | 64,217 | 29% | ||
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