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| Affiliation | Republican |
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2000-01-01 |
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| Name | George E. Terwilleger |
| Address |
Maineville, Ohio , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
February 03, 1941
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| Died | February 26, 2012
(71 years)
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| Contributor | ... |
| Last Modifed | Mr. Matt
May 02, 2022 07:04pm |
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Married - National Guard - Freemason -
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| Info | State Representative, 1993-2000.
HE IS A NATIVE SON: Born February 3, 1941, in Cozaddale, Warren
County, Ohio, to Myrtle and Charles Terwilleger who was the last
Postmaster of this rural area. He attended grade school in Maineville
and was in the first graduating class of the then new Little Miami High
School in Morrow, Ohio.
HE IS A FAMILY MAN: married since 1962 to Jacqualine Johnson,
father of DeWayne Terwilleger of Loveland, DeLanna Oeder of
Maineville, and DeAnna Mengle of Cozaddale. All living in Hamilton
Township, Warren County, where they were born and raised.
HE IS A HARD WORKER, employed from the 8th grade through high
school at the former Whitley's family IGA grocery in Loveland, then as
an assembly worker at the Big Four Factory in Maineville, advancing to
Traffic Manager setting up the shipping/receiving and Purchasing
Departments. Meanwhile, he and his wife opened their restaurant
DET's (children's initial's) Delicatessen in Maineville, while he also
drove a school bus. Three years later he leased out the restaurant and
left Big Four to join the Cincinnati District Post Office as their
Contracting Officer.
After just two years he was nominated as the Federal Employee of the
Year and was promoted to the larger Columbus District Office. He
turned down another promotion to the Chicago office to return to
Maineville, where he opened the Countryside Real Estate Agency
with his wife and served in public office.
He served on the Board of Trustees for the Otterbein Retirement
Homes in Lebanon for several years demonstrating in many ways his
personal care and deep concern for the elderly.
HE WORKED HARD FOR HIS EDUCATION, attending the University
of Cincinnati and Xavier University evening divisions for 13 years while
working full time obtaining his degree in Business Administration. He
has also attended Southern Ohio College, George Washington
University, and numerous other continuing educational schools and
seminars.
HE IS A COMMUNITY LEADER, active even in high school with the
Future Farmers of America parliamentary debating team, band, chorus,
and plays. Out of school, he served as President of the County Board
of Realtors-1983, Chairman of the Warren County Township Trustees
& Clerks Association and is active as a member of the Warren County
Area Progress Council as 1st Vice President and President of the
Project Excellence Program-2001-3.
Fraternally he was Worthy Patron of the Morrow Chapter Order of
Eastern Stars-1971, Master Mason-1965, Royal Arch Mason-68,
Scottish Rite Mason 1973, Past President of Warren County Scottish
Rite Club, and received the 33rd degree 9-23-03 in St. Louis, Mo.,
recipient of the Kiwanis Paul Harris Fellow Award
- and the list goes on.
HE SERVED HIS COUNTRY as an artillery National Guardsman in
Lebanon, Ohio. He had his basic training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in fire
direction control and specializing as a Forward Observer with an
honorable discharge as an E-5 Specialist. He was called back to active
duty during the Cuban crisis as an Artillery Forward Observer flying fire
missions out of an L19 airplane at Ft. Sill.
HE'S AN ENTERPRISING BUSINESSMAN AND EXECUTIVE.
He was the Corporate Director of Procurement procuring capital goods
and operational supplies with over a $2 million dollar budget while
coordinating the corporation's personnel policies and procedures for
six facilities. He contracted for and administered benefit programs for
about 1,000 employees with a budget of over $3 million dollars.
Now a current full time employee he oversees $127 million dollars in
casualty, liability and property insurance. Among his many other
responsibilities with the Otterbein Retirement Homes, he manages
a 958-acre farm in Lebanon, and diverse real estate holdings
throughout Western Ohio. He is currently the Corporate Director of
Corporate Compliance and Government Relations
HE IS AN EXPERIENCED AND EFFECTIVE PUBLIC SERVANT,
first elected as Hamilton Township Trustee in 1969, serving 1970-74 for
five years, appointed, after the untimely death of the Clerk, to serve as
the Township Clerk beginning 1975, and re-elected in 1975 and 1979
serving for five years.(10 years in Hamilton Township Government-5 yrs as
Trustee & 5 yrs as clerk) Elected in 1979 as County Commissioner for
the term of 1980 serving through 1991 (12 yrs in Warren County Government)
as Warren County Commissioner. Elected in 1991 as State
Representative for the 2nd House District encompassing all of Warren
County and term limited out with 8 years Dec. 31st, 2000 finishing up with
30 years of service in Warren County and is very appreciative of the
experience and opportunities given him by the voters of Warren County.
While in the Legislature George introduced 63 forms of legislation and had
23 passed into law in the General Assembly of Ohio. He was a leader in
technology having the first Computer Network in the Ohio's House of
Representatives. Ask him about getting caught in the ceiling of the
Riffe Center after hours pulling wires for the network.
Also a member of the Cincinnati FBI Citizens Academy, a Kentucky
Colonel, as well as a member of the Governor Taft's "Ohio Commodore's".
HE KNOWS HOW TO BALANCE A BUDGET without placing an
undue burden on local government. "It's time to stop sending people to
Government who have never had to meet a payroll", George says
mandates without proper means of funding at any level are ridiculous!
He claims we need practical approaches to issuing state laws affecting
local government and taxpayers. George was responsible for a $17
million dollar Commissioners budget and gave oversight to Warren
County's total $80.5 million dollar budget as a County Commissioner.
HE GETS THE JOB DONE. Serving several years as President of the
Board of County Commissioners, he gave leadership in providing
affordable water and sewer service to more residents of this rural county
than had been totally done prior to his election. He initiated the first
telecommunications network for a County in Ohio, complete with an
E-911 emergency system, which created toll-free telephone access to
the county courthouse and elected officials across a 408-square mile
area encompassing 6 different telephone companies. This project took
almost eight years of hard work negotiating with PUCO and the
telephone companies who sued the County to prevent the project.
The County won! He chaired the Regional Planning Commission for
several years providing for the County to be the fastest growing in the
State bringing in over 6,000 jobs to this rural County. He initiated a
wellhead protection program to preserve water purity; implemented
regulations controlling soil erosion and sediment control; and numerous
other valuable accomplishments for the public good.
HE'S TAKEN HIGHLY RESPONSIBLE INITIATIVES IN
GOVERNMENT far beyond the call of duty. He has exercised leadership
in the Ohio & Regional State of Ohio County Commissioners Association,
serving on their Board of Trustees as well as having chaired their Environmental &
Infrastructure Committee and the Personnel & Labor Relations
Committee. Due to his involvement, he was appointed to (NACO)
the National Association of Counties Steering Committee on
Environment, Energy and Land Use. The list goes on with his
chairing of the first Clinton-Warren Joint Solid Waste District Board of
Directors as well as the two Counties Joint Policy Committee.
HE'S EVERYBODY'S CHOICE, winning his first election as County
Commissioner against an eight-year incumbent. He was
recommended by the Minority Leader of the House of Representatives,
and appointed by a Democratic Governor; then re-appointed by
Governor Voinovich to the State of Ohio's first Public Works
Commission, serving from 1988-1992 including being Vice Chairman.
As a State Representative, he served as the Chair of the Ohio State
Government Committee and served as Chairman of the
Economics Development & Small Business Committee. He served
as a member of the Energy and Environment Committee;
past Vice Chairman of Health, Retirement, and Aging Committee;
and was a member of the Local Government and Townships Committee;
as well as having served as a member of the powerful JCARR
(Joint Committee on Agency Rules Review)
Committee. He was one of only fourteen of the ninety-nine House
Representatives to receive the Watchdog of the Treasury award in his
first term.
HE'S TRULY A GRASS ROOT INDIVIDUAL. He says, "Thanks to my
rural upbringing in a modest-income family, I know the value of hard
work. As a township official, I've dug ditches, shoveled and bulldozed
snow and placed gravel around mailboxes. As a life-long resident of
Warren County, I understand the local neighborhood issues. As a small
businessman, I know how to balance budgets and meet payrolls. As a
local government official for many years, I have personally been involved
in getting the job done that many merely talk about or try and write laws
to force an effect. I've come through the school of hard knocks,
acquired expertise through decades of practical experience, and
walked hundreds of miles in the shoes of the general laborer. I've
placed a high value on team leadership, holding weekly staff meetings
among Township, County & State Department Heads. The only way to
solve problems is to see the good and the bad in an issue and then
mediate the problems and come to a consensus opinion."
HE CARES! He is well known for the many thousands of flag pins and
roses he has given away as an outward expression of caring, symbolizing
his years of service in local government for local people, and has now
served all citizens of Ohio for 8 years as a State Representative.
Ask him about his goat and if anyone has ever gotten his goat.
GEORGE E. TERWILLEGER, in summary, is a native son, a hard
worker, a loyal servant, an enterprising businessman, an executive,
a seasoned and effective public administrator, the popular choice of
voters and elected officials, a strong leader, a man of vision, a solid
family man, a patriot, self-educated, grass roots, and a sensitive and
caring humanitarian who has crisscrossed the United States and
Canada on a Gold Wing motorcycle; from Alaska to Nova Scotia
-all Provinces in Canada and missing only the State of Washington
in the US of A.
Representative Terwilleger brings a rare combination of wisdom,
ability, experience and common sense to the political arena. Rather
than being born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he had a working
shovel in his hand.
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