DEFENSE SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE

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Defense Subcommittee
of the
House Appropriations Committee
Mahon, George H. (D., Tex.), Chairman
Sheppard, Harry R. (D., Calif.) Wigglesworth, Richard B. (R. , Mass.]
* Thomas, Albert (D., Tex.) Scrivner, Errett P. (R., Kans.)
Norrell, W. F. (D., Ark.) Ford, Gerald R., Jr. (P., Mich.)
Whitten, Jamie L. (D., Miss.) Miller, Edward T. (R., Md.)
Andrews, George W. (P., Ala.) Ostertag, Harold C. (R., N.Y.)
Sikes, Robert L. F. (D., Fla.) Budge, Hamer H. (R., Idaho)
Riley, John Jacob (D., S. C.) Laird, Melvin R. (R., Wis.)
Flood, Daniel J. (D., Pa.)
x * Boyle, Charles A. (D., Ill.")
* Recently made members of the Subcommittee
x Recently made a member of the full Committee
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Defense Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee
NINETEENTH DISTRICT.?Comsrms: Andrews, Bailey, Borden, Cochran, Crosby, Dawson, Dick-
ens, Floyd, Gaines, Garza, Hale, Haskell, Hockley, Howard, Kent, King, Lamb, Lubbock, Lynn,
Martin, Mitchell, Scurry, Stonewall, Terry, and Yoakum (25 counties). Population (1950), 369,315.
GEORGE H. MAHON, Democrat, Lubbock, Tex.; born September 22, 1900,
near Haynesville, La., son of J. K. and Lola Brown Mahon; moved to Mitchell
County, Tex., 1908; reared on a farm; attended rural school, graduated from
Loraine High School; B. A., Simmons University, Abilene, 1924; LL. B.' Uni-
versity of Texas, 1925; attended University of Minnesota in 1925; married Helen
Stevenson, of Loraine, Tex., 1923; one daughter?Daphne, born 1927; elected
county attorney, Mitchell County, 1926; appointed district attorney, thirty-
second judicial district, 1927; elected district attorney 1928, 1930, 1932; elected
in 1934 to Seventy-fourth Congress and reelected to each succeeding Congress.
TWENTY-SEVENTH DISTRICT.?SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. Population (1950), 281,642.
HARRY R. SHEPPARD, Democrat, of Yucaipa, Calif.; born in Mobile, Ala.,
January 10, 1885; educated in common schools and university; studied law 3
years; entered transportation department of the Santa Fe Railroad; active
committee member of Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; thence engaged in
copper business in Alaska; traveled in three continents in behalf of business
interests; married to Miss Kay Olson, May 24, 1933; developed King's Beverage
and King's Laboratories Corporations and served as president and general manager
of the latter interests until 1934, at which time he retired from active business;
elected to the Seventy-fifth Congress on November 3, 1936; reelected to the
Seventy-sixth, Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, Eightieth,
Eighty-first, Eighty-second, Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth Con-
gresses.
EIGHTH DISTRICT.?HARRIs COUNTY. Population (1950), 806,701.
ALBERT THOMAS, Democrat, of Houston, Tex.?' born in Nacogdoches,
Tex., April 12, 1898; A. B. and LL. B. degrees; World War I veteran; married;
two daughters, Anne and Lera; was elected to Seventy-fifth and succeeding
Congresses; chairman, Independent Offices Appropriations Committee, Eighty-
first, Eighty-second, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth Congresses.
SIXTH DISTRICT.?COUNTIES: Arkansas, Chicot, Cleveland, Dallas, Desha, Drew, Garland, Grant.
Hot Spring, Jefferson, Lincoln, Lonoke, and Saline (13 counties). Population (1950), 333,012.
W. F. NORRELL, Democrat, Monticello, Ark.; born August 29, 1896, at Milo,
Ark.; attended public schools of Ashley County, Ark., A. & 'Vt. College, Monti-
cello, Ark., College of the Ozarks (LL. D.), Clarksville, and Arkansas Law School
Little Rock; admitted to proctice law in supreme court of Arkansas and United
States Supreme Court; ex-soldier World War I; member following: Arkansas
Bar Association, American Bar Association, Joe S. Harris Post No. 2, American
Legion, Department of Arkansas, United Commercial Travelers, Hot Springs
National Chapter, Wild Life Association (life member), Eureka Lodge No. 40
F. & A. M., Monticello Chapter No. 115 R. A. M., Alpha Council No. 59, R. &
S. M., Consistory, Valley of Little Rock, Sahara Temple A. A. 0. N. M. S., Pine
Bluff, Arkansas, Eureka Chapter No. 374, Order of the Eastern Star of Arkansas,
Monticello, Ark. (Worthy Grand Patron 1939-40), Lions Club, Monticello,
Deacon First Baptist Church, Montieello; elected to State senate of Arkansas
in 1931, reelected in 1935 serving eight successive years; elected president of State
senate from 1933 to 1937, during which time served on several occasions as Acting
Governor; married Catherine Dorris in 1924 and they have one child, a daughter,
Judy NOrrell; elected to Seventy-sixth and each succeeding Congress.
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SECOND DISTRICT.?COUNTIES: Benton, Carroll, De Soto, Grenada, Lafayette, Marshall, Mont-
gomery, Panola, Tallahatchie, Tate, Tippah, Union, and Yalobusha (13 counties). Population (1950),
281,207.
JAMIE L. WRITTEN, Democrat, of Charleston, Miss.; born at Cascilla,
Miss., April 18, 1910; married to Miss Rebecca Thompson, of Saltillo, Miss.,
June 20, 1940; two children, James Lloyd, born March 5, 1942, and Beverly
Rebecca, born January 14, 1946; member Presbyterian Church, Masonic Order,
Rotarian, Phi Alpha Delta (legal fraternity), and Beta Theta Pi; educated in
the public schools of Cascilla and Charleston, Miss.; attended both literary and
law departments of the University of Mississippi, being admitted to the bar in
1932 with honors and has since practiced law at Charleston, Miss.; served 1 year
as school principal, 1930-31; elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives
when 21 years of age and served one session; elected district attorney of the
seventeenth district of Mississippi at the age of 23; reelected district attorney
twice and served in that capacity until elected to the Seventy-seventh Congress
at a special election held on November 4, 1941, to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Hon. Wall Doxey; reelected to the Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth,
Eightieth, Eighty-first, Eighty-second, Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-
fifth Congresses.
THIRD DISTRICT.?C ?UNTIES: Barbour, Bullock, Coffee, Dale, Geneva, Henry, Houston, Lee, Macon,
and Russell (10 counties). Population (1950), 303,587.
GEORGE WILLIAM ANDREWS, Democrat, of Union Springs, Ala.; born in
Clayton, Ala., December 12, 1906; attended the academic department of the
University of Alabama and was graduated with LL. B. degree in 1928; is a lawyer
by profession; served as circuit solicitor for the third judicial circuit of the State
of Alabama (Barbour, Bullock, Russell, and Dale Counties) from 1931 to 1943;
at time of election to Congress was serving as lieutenant (junior grade), United
States Naval Reserve, at Pearl Harbor, and had been in the United States Naval
Reserve 14 months; was released from active duty by the Navy Department to
serve in Congress; married Elizabeth Bullock, of Geneva, Ala., November 25,
1936; one daughter, Jane Meredith, one son, George W., 3d; fraternities, Sigma
Nu, Omicron Delta Kappa, and Phi Delta Phi (legal); elected to the Seventy-
eighth Congress on March 14, 1944, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Henry B. Steag,all, serving on Committee on Expenditures in Executive Depart-
ments, Roads Committee, and Committee on World War Veterans' Legislation;
reelected to the Seventy-ninth and Eightieth Congresses, serving on Appropria-
tions Committee and Independent Offices; reelected to the Eighty-first, Eighty-
second, Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth Congresses.
THIRD DISTRICT.?CouNTiEs: Bay, Calhoun, Escambia, Franklin, Gadsden, Gulf, Holmes, Jackson,
Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Wakulla, Walton, and Washington (16 counties).
Population (1950), 409,824.
ROBERT L. F. SIKES, Democrat, of Crestview, Okaloosa County, Fla.; born
at Isabella, Worth County, Ga., June 3, 1906, son of Ben F. and Clara Ford Sikes;
farm reared; received bachelor's degree, University of Georgia, 1927; master's,
University of Florida, 1929; married Inez Tyner of Laurel Hill, Fla.; two children,
Mrs. Edward F. Wicke and Robert Keyes; publisher; elected chairman, county
Democratic executive committee, 1934; served with Democratic National Com-
mittee, 1936 to 1946, during national elections; elected to Florida State Legis-
lature in 1936 and 1938; member of Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Zeta, Sigma Delta Chi,
Phi Sigma, Alpha Gamma Rho, 32? Mason, Grotto, Knights Templar, Shrine,
Knights of Pythias, Moose, B. P. 0. E., V. F. W.' American Legion, Military Order
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World War; colonel, U. S. A. R.? president, Florida Press Association, 1937;
lieutenant governor, Kiwanis, 1940; honorary member, Rotary and Lions;
Methodist; elected to the Seventy-seventh Congress on November 5, 1940, and
reelected to each succeeding Congress; chairman Florida delegation to Democratic
National Convention in 1956.
SECOND DISTRICT.?COUNTIES: Aiken, Bamberg, Barnwell, Calhoun, Lexington, Orangeburg,
Richland, and Sumter (8 counties). Population (1950), 415,893.
JOHN JACOB RILEY, Democrat, of Sumter, S. C.; born in OrangeburgatT.?
February 1, 1895; elementary training in Orangeburg County school; was gi4d-
uated from Orangeburg (S. C.) High School and from Wofford College, Spartan-
burg, S.-C., with A. B. and A. M. degrees; taught in the Orangeburg city schools
and at Clemson A. & M. College, Clemson, S. C.; served in the United States
Navy in World War I; has been engaged in the real estate and insurance business
in Sumter, S. C., since 1919; director of the First Federal Savings and Loan
Association of Sumter; past president of Sumter Chamber of Commerce, Wofford
College Alumni Association, and of the Sumter Rotary Club; past post com-
mander of Post No. 15, the American Legion; past district commander, the
American Legion; head of boys' work, Sumter Post, the American Legion, 1926-44;
member, Forty and Eight, B. P. 0. E., K. of P., Mason; member, the Methodist
Church; married to Corinne Anderson Boyd, of Spartanburg, S. C., in 1917; one
daughter, Mrs. Douglas Warren Purdy, Jamestown, N. Y., and one son, 0.
Beverley 3d; elected to the Seventy-ninth, Eightieth, Eighty-second, Eighty-third,
Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth Congresses.
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ELEVENTH DISTRICT.-LUZERNE COUNTY. Population (1950), 392,241.
DANIEL J. FLOOD, Democrat, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa.; born in Hazleton, Pa.,
November 26, 1903; received early education in the public schools of Wilkes-,
Barre, Pa., and St. Augustine, Fla.; graduate of Syracuse University, A. B. and
M. A. degrees, and later attended Harvard Law School and Dickinson School of
Law, Carlisle, Pa., graduating in 1929 with LL.B. degrees; admitted to the bar
of the various State and Federal courts in 1930; member of the bar, District of
Columbia and of the United States Supreme Court; member of Luzerne County,
Pa. Pennsylvania State and American Bar Associations; engaged in the practice
of law since 1930; attorney for Home Owners' Loan dorporation, 1934-35; ap-
pointed deputy attorney general for .the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and
counsel for Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, 1935-39; director, Bureau of
Public Assistance Disbursements, State Treasury, and executive assistant to
State Treasurer, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1941-44; married Catherine H.
Swank on September 24, 1949; member of many local civic, fraternal, beneficial,
and social societies; president, Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce; chairman,
United States Marine Corps Volunteer Reserve Committee; secretary, Democratic
Society of Pennsylvania; elected to the Seventy-ninth Congress November 7,
1944; elected to the Eighty-first Congress November 2, 1948; elected to the
Eighty-second Congress November 7, 1950; former member of Appropriations
Committee; vice chairman Subcommittee on State, Justice, Commerce Depart-
ments and Federal Judiciary; member Armed Services Subcommittee; acting
chairman Army Subcommittee; vice chairman Special Committee to Investigatei?
the Katyn Massacre (Murder of Polish Officers by Russians); member of Board
of Directors, Wyoming Valley Motor Club; member of Board of Directors,
Catholic Charities; member of Board of Trustees and Board of Governorg
Welfare Federation, and special master for Railroad Reorganization, United States
Circuit Court; elected to the Eighty-fourth Congress November 2, 1954; member
of House Appropriations Committee; elected to the Eighty-fifth Congress,
November 6, 1956. _
4 TWELFTH DISTRICT.-CITY OF CHICAGO; Ward 39, precincts Ito 14, 40, 64, 68, 71, 73, 74,-and 76 to 79;
ward 40, precincts 1 to 10, 24, 36, 57, 61, 66, 67, and 71; ward 45, precincts 60, 61, and 67; ward 46, pre-
cincts 1, 2, 4, 6 to 10, 61, and 62; wards 47 to 50. Population (1950), 3544065.
CHARLES A. BOYLE, Democrat, of Chicago, Ill.; born in Spring Lake, Mich.,
August 13, 1907; graduated from Mount Carmel High School in 1925, Loyola
University in 1930, and Loyola Law School in 1933; worked his way through
college as a conductor, checker, investigator, driver, and inspector for the Chicago
Motor Coach Co.; admitted to practice law in Illinois in 1934; senior member of
the law firm of Boyle, Murphy & Walsh of Chicago, Ill.; meniber of Chicago.
Illinois, and American Bar Associations, the Executive Club, the Edgewater Golf
Club, the Irish Fellowship Club of Chicago, Chicago North Elks, and president
of the Fourth Degree Club .of University Council of Knights of Columbus; speaker
of note and winner of several oratorical contests; presently one of the speakers in
Cardinal Stritch's Archdiocesan Lecture Bureau; zone attorney for the Federal
Housing Administration 'in 1937 and 1938; associated with thefl Committee on
Local Transportation 1939-51; married and the father of eight children; selected
Chicagoland Father of the Year in 1952-53 and later chosen Mr. Illinois; elected
to the Eighty-fourth Congress November 2, 1954; reelected to the Eighty-fifth
Congress.
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THIRTEENTH DISTRICT.?NORFOLK COUNTY: City of Quincy; towns of Avon, Braintree, Canton,
Dedham, Holbrook, Milton, Needham, Norwood, Randolph, Westwood, and Weymouth. PLYMOUTH
COUNTY: City of Brockton. SUFFOLK COUNTY: City of Boston, ward 18. Population (1950), 354,679.
RICHARD B. WIGGLESWORTH, Republican, of Milton; born in Boston,
April 25, 1891; educated at Harvard (A. B. 1912, LL. B. 1916); married Florence
Joyes Booth of Louisville, Ky., April 30, 1931; children. Ana Joyes, Mary Dixwell,
and Jane Booth; assistant private secretary to Hon. W. Cameron Forbes, Gov-
ernor General of the Philippine Islands, 1913; lawyer; served in France during
World War I as captain, Battery E, and commanding officer, First Battalion,
Three Hundred and Third Field Artillery, Seventy-sixth Division; office of
Secretary of the Treasury as legal adviser to Assistant Secretary in charge of
foreign loans and railway payments, and secretary of World War Foreign Debt
Commission, 1922-24; assistant to agent general for reparation payments, Berlin,
1924-27; Paris representative and general counsel for organizations created under
Dawes plan, 1927-28; member of American Bar Association, Massachusetts Bar
Association, American Legion, 40 and 8, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Military
Order World War, Military Order Foreign Wars; head of speakers bureau, Re-
publican National Committee 1940; alternate at large, Republican National
Convention 1948; elected November 6, 1928, to the Seventieth Congress for the
unexpired term of the late Hon. Louis A. Frothingham; reelected to the Seventy-
first, Seventy-second, Seventy-third, Seventy-fourth, Seventy-fifth, Seventy-sixth,
Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, Seventy-ninth, Eightieth, Eighty-first, Eighty-
second, Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth Congresses.
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SECOND DISTRICT.?CouNTiEs: Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Douglas, Franklin, Johnson, Linn,
Miami, and Wyandotte (9 counties). Population (1950), 359,473.
ERRETT P. SCRIVNER, Republican, of Kansas City, Kans.; born in Newton,
Kans., March 20, 1898, son of Rev. William H. and Etta (West) Scrivner; at-
tended grade schools in several Kansas towns; graduated from Manual Training
High School, Kansas City, Mo.; enlisted in Battery B, One Hundred and Twenty-
ninth Field Artillery, in July 1917; served overseas with the Thirty-fifth Division;
awarded Silver Star and Purple Heart medals; graduated from Kansas University,
1925, LL. B.; member of Phi Delta Phi and Order of Coif; general practice of the
law; member of Wyandotte County Bar Association, Kansas State Bar Associa-
tion, and of the bar of the United States Supreme Court; past State commander,
American Legion (Kansas); member of Christian Church and Masonic bodies
(33d degree); married Jean Lorraine Marshall, 1921; one daughter, Nancy Lee;
elected to the Seventy-eighth Congress on September 14, 1943, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of U. S. Guyer; reelected to the Seventy-ninth, Eightieth,
Eighty-first, Eighty-second, Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth
Congresses.
FIFTH DISTRICT?COUNTIES: Kent and Ottawa (2 counties). Population (1950, 362,043.
GERALD R. FORD, JR., Republican, of Grand Rapids, Mich.; born in Omaha,
Nebr., July 14, 1913; attended Grand Rapids public schools; graduated from
University of Michigan with B. A. degree 1935 and from Yale University Law
School with LL. B. degree 1941; admitted to Michigan bar in 1941; served 47
months in United States Navy in World War II; Grand Rapids Junior Chamber of
Commerce Distinguished Service Award 1947; United States Junior Chamber
of Commerce Distinguished Service Award 1949; married to Elizabeth B. Warren;
three sons?Michael Gerald, born March 14, 1950, John Gardner, born March 16,
1952, and Steven Meigs, born May 19, 1956; elected to the Eighty-first Congress
on November 2, 1948; reelected to the Eighty-second, Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth,
and Eighty-fifth Congresses.
FIRST DISTRICT.?COUNTIES: Caroline, Cecil, Dorchester, Kent, Queen Ames, Somerset, Talbot,
Wicomico, and Worcester (9 counties). Population (1950), 210,623.
EDWARD TYLOR MILLER, Republican, of Easton, Md.; born at Woodside,
Md., February 1, 1895; graduated from Sidwell's Friends School, Washington,
D. C., 1912; graduated from Yale in 1916 with A. B. degree; member of Phi Beta
Kappa, Omicron Delta Kappa, American Legion, 40 and 8, Veterans of Foreign
Wars, Psi Upsilon, National Grange, Lions, Elks Club, K. of P., A. F. and A. M.,
and Shrine; Infantry officer in World War I; practiced law since 1920; served
as referee in bankruptcy; police and juvenile judge; served as colonel of Infantry
in World War II; married Josephine W. Ford in 1942; elected to the Eightieth
Congress on November 5, 1946; reelected to the Eighty-first, Eighty-second,
Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth Congresses.
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THIRTY-NINTH DISTRICT.?COUNTIES: Genesee, Orleans, and Wyoming. MONROE COUNTY: That
portion within and bounded by a line beginning at a point where the waters of the Genesee River and
Charlotte Harbor intersect the waters of Lake Ontario, thence running in a southerly direction through
the waters of Charlotte Harbor and the Genesee River to a point where the Genesee River intersects the
city line, thence westerly and northerly along said city line as it winds and turns to the intersection of
the city line and the waters of Lake Ontario, and thence through the waters of Lake Ontario to the place
of beginning; towns of Chili, Clarkson, Gates, Greece, Hamlin, Ogden, Parma, Riga, Sweden and
Wheatland. Population (1950), 312,404.
HAROLD C. OSTERTAG, Republican, of Attica, Wyoming County, N. Y.;
born in Attica, N. Y., June 22,1896; educated at Attica High School and Chamber-
lain Military Institute; enlisted in the Seventy-fourth Infantry, Twenty-seventh
Division, for service in World War I; served with Fifty-fifth Pioneer Infantry in
American Expeditionary Forces in France; elected to New York State Legislature,
1932, serving continuously to 1951; chairman of Joint Legislative Committee on
Interstate Cooperation, 1935 to 1951; active in formation of the Council of State
Governments and served as officer and member of the board of managers; county
commander, district commander, and State vice commander, American Legion;
member of Veterans of Foreign Wars, Elks, Attica Grange, and Wyoming County
Farm Bureau; married to the former Grace Bryson; elected to Eighty-second
Congress, November 7, 1950, and reelected to succeeding Congresses; former
member, Commission on Intergovernmental Relations; member, Board of Visitors,
United States Naval Academy; member, Committee on Appropriations.
SECOND DISTRICT.?Couirrias: Ada, Bannock, Bear Lake, Bingham, Blaine, Bonneville, Butte,
Camas, Caribou, Cassia, Clark, Elmore, Franklin, Fremont, Gooding, Jefferson, Jerome, Lincoln,
Madison, Minidoka, Oneida, Owyhee, Power, Teton, and Twin Falls (25 counties) and part of Yellow-
stone National Park. Population (1950), 344,650.
HAMER H. BUDGE, Republican, of Boise, Idaho; born in Pocatello, Idaho,
November 21,1910, son of Idaho Supreme Court Justice and Mrs. Alfred Budge;
education, Boise grade schools, Boise, Idaho; graduate of Boise High School in
1928; 2 years, College of Idaho, Caldwell, Idaho; 3 years (including A. B. degree,
majoring in political science) Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.;3 years,
University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho, LL. B. degree; continuous private practice
of law in the city of Boise 1936-50, except for 34 years United States Navy, 1942-
45, with final discharge as lieutenant commander, United States Naval Reserve;
three sessions Idaho State Legislature, representative from Ada County; assistant
Republican floor leader two sessions; majority floor leader one session; married
Jeanne Keithly in 1940; elected to the Eighty-second Congress November 7,1950;
reelected to the Eighty-third, Eighty-fourth, and Eighty-fifth Congresses.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.?COUNTIES: Adams, Green Lake, Langlade, Marathon, Marquette, Portage,
Shawano, Waupaca, Waushara, and Wood (10 counties). Population (1950), 303,389.
MELVIN R. LAIRD, Republican, of Marshfield, Wis.; born September 1,1922;
son of Melvin R. and Helen C. Laird; attended Marshfield grade schools and
high school; B. A. degree, Carleton College, Northfield, Minn.; formerly employed
as secretary-treasurer of a lumber company but resigned upon taking office as
member of House of Representatives; served in United States Navy, World War
II, aboard destroyer Maddox in Task Force 58 and Pacific Third Fleet; elected
Wisconsin State Senator 1946; reelected without opposition 1948; served as
legislative spokesman in 1949 and 1951 sessions of Wisconsin Legislature for
former Gov. Oscar Rennebohm and Gov. Walter J. Kohler; member, Wisconsin
Educational Commission 1947-49; member, Wisconsin Joint Legislative Council
1949-53, chairman 1951-53; chairman, Taxation Committee 1949-51; member,
Joint Finance Committee 1949-52; member, Senate Labor and Management
Committee 1947-50; member, Senate Veterans and Military Affairs Committee
1947-52, chairman 1949-52,- member, Senate Legislative Procedure Committee
1949-52; chairman Wood County Republican Statutory Committee 1949-51;
member, Wisconsin delegation, Republican National Convention 1948,1952, and
1956; member, Republican National Convention Platform Committee 1952 and
1956; chairman, subcommittee on Labor and Public Welfare 1952; chairman,
subcommittee on Agriculture' 1956; chairman, Wisconsin Republican Party Plat-
form Committee 1950 and 1952; member of American Legion, 40 et 8, Veterans
of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans, Military Order of Purple Heart,
F. & A. M., United Commercial Travelers, and B. P. 0. E.; elder, First Presby-
terian Church of Marshfield; married Barbara Masters of Indianapolis, Ind., 'On
October 15,1945; three children, John Osborne, Alison, and David; home address,
207 South Central Avenue, Marshfield, Wis.; elected to Eighty-third Congress
November 4,1952; reelected to the Eighty-fourth and Eighty-fifth Congresses;
member, House Appropriations Committee Eighty-third and Eighty-fifth Con-
gresses; member, House Agricultural Committee Eighty-fourth Congress.
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