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Affiliation | Republican |
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Name | John B. Hollister |
Address | Cincinnati, Ohio , United States |
Email | None |
Website | None |
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November 07, 1890
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Died | January 04, 1979
(88 years)
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Contributor | Chronicler |
Last Modifed | Chronicler Apr 06, 2008 07:39am |
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Info | HOLLISTER, John Baker, a Representative from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, November 7, 1890; attended the public schools and St. Paul’s School, Concord, N.H.; was graduated from Yale University, in 1911; attended the University of Munich, Germany, in 1911 and 1912, and was graduated from Harvard University Law School, in 1915; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Cincinnati, Ohio; appointed on August 15, 1917, a first lieutenant in the United States Army and served overseas as captain of Battery B, Forty-sixth Artillery Corps, later being in command of the Third Battalion of his regiment; on detached service with American Relief Administration under Herbert Hoover, 1919; resumed the practice of law in Cincinnati, Ohio; director of various financial and manufacturing corporations; member of the Cincinnati Board of Education 1921-1929; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-second Congress by special election, November 3, 1931, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Nicholas Longworth; reelected to the two succeeding Congresses and served from November 3, 1931, to January 3, 1937; was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress; resumed the practice of his profession; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1940, 1944, 1948, and 1952; headed United Nations Relief Rehabilitation Association mission to Holland, 1945; executive director, Hoover Commission, from October 1953 to July 1955; Director, International Cooperation Administration, 1955-1957; resumed the practice of law in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he died January 4, 1979; cremated; ashes interred in Spring Grove Cemetery.
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