Editing Ed Markey (section)

==Career==
[[File:1975 Edward Markey Massachusetts House of Representatives.png|thumb|upright=0.60|Edward Markey, 1975]]
After graduating, Markey worked as a lawyer in private practice. He served in the [[United States Army Reserve]] from 1968 to 1973, attaining the rank of [[Specialist (rank)|Specialist 4]].<ref name="Bierman">{{cite news |last=Bierman |first=Noah |date=April 21, 2013 |title=A Drive That Stunned Markey's Family, and Never Ebbed: Representative Came in as a Rebel, Then Rose |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2013/04/20/markey-rode-anti-vietnam-post-watergate-yearnings-seat-congress/geRkNb4wX1HRtZElFpXpgI/story.html |work=[[The Boston Globe]] |location=Boston, MA |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He joined while a junior in college, and has said that he enlisted before knowing whether he would receive a [[Vietnam War]] draft notice.<ref name="Bierman"/>{{efn|Markey was not drafted.  His birth date corresponded to number 248 in the 1969 military draft. The highest number called up for military service was 195.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sss.gov/About/History-And-Records/lotter1 |title=The Vietnam Lotteries |website=History and Records |publisher=United States Selective Service System |location=Washington, DC |access-date=September 24, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904185904/https://www.sss.gov/About/History-And-Records/lotter1 |archive-date=September 4, 2015 |url-status=dead }}</ref>}} Markey also said that even though he opposed the war, he would have answered the induction notice and gone to [[Vietnam]] if he had been drafted, despite having secured a position in the Reserve.<ref name="Bierman"/> His [[South Boston, Massachusetts|South Boston]] reserve unit included [[Thomas P. O'Neill III]], [[Steve Grossman (politician)|Steve Grossman]], and Markey's brothers Richard and John.<ref name="Bierman"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Nickisch |first=Curt |date=April 24, 2013 |title=Markey, U.S. Congressman For 36 Years, Sets His Sights On The Senate |url=https://www.wbur.org/news/2013/04/24/edward-markey-senate-profile |work=[[WBUR-FM]] Radio |location=Boston, MA}}</ref>

Markey was elected to the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]], where he represented the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives' 16th Middlesex district|16th Middlesex]] district ([[Malden, Massachusetts|Malden]] and [[Melrose, Massachusetts|Melrose]]) and [[Massachusetts House of Representatives' 26th Middlesex district|26th Middlesex]] district from 1973 to 1976.<ref>{{cite book |title=Public Officers of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |volume=1973, 1975 |url=http://archives.lib.state.ma.us/handle/2452/40890/browse?type=dateissued  |publisher=[[Massachusetts General Court]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |access-date= September 4, 2020 |work= PD43+ |author= Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Elections Division |url= https://electionstats.state.ma.us/candidates/view/Edward-J-Markey |title= Candidates: Edward J. Markey }}</ref>