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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriBOLLING, Richard Walker
(1916—1991)
BOLLING, Richard Walker, (great-great-grandson of John Williams Walker and great-great-nephew of Percy Walker), a Representative from Missouri; born in New York City, May 17, 1916; attended grade schools and Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; at the age of fifteen, upon his father’s death, returned to his home in Huntsville, Ala.; B.A., 1937, M.A., 1939, University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.; graduate studies, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn., 1939-1940; taught at Sewanee Military Academy in 1938 and 1939; served as assistant to the head of the Department of Education, Florence State Teachers College, in Alabama, in 1940; educational administrator by profession; entered the United States Army as a private in April 1941, and served until discharged as a lieutenant colonel in July 1946, with four years’ overseas service in Australia, New Guinea, Philippines, and in Japan as assistant to chief of staff to General MacArthur; awarded the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star Medal; veterans’ adviser at the University of Kansas City in 1946 and 1947; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1949-January 3, 1983); chairman, Select Committee on Committees of the House (Ninety-third Congress), Joint Economic Committee (Ninety-fifth Congress); Committee on Rules (Ninety-sixth and Ninety-seventh Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection in 1982 to the Ninety-eighth Congress; was a resident of Washington, D.C., until his death there on April 21, 1991.
Bibliography
Bolling, Richard, and John Bowles. America’s Competitive Edge: How to Get Our Country Moving Again.
New York: McGraw-Hill Bok Company, Inc., 1982; Lowe, David E. “The Bolling Committee and the Politics of Reorganization.” Capitol Studies
6 (Spring 1978): 39-61.
Bolling, Richard Walker. America’s Competitive Edge: How to Get Our Country Moving Again
. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982.
———. “Committees in the House.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
411 (January 1974): 1-14.
———. Defeating the Leadership Nominee in the House Democratic Caucus
. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965.
———. House Out of Order.
New York: Dutton, 1965.
———. “Management of Congress.” Public Administration Review
35 (September 1975): 490-4.
———. “Money in Politics.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
486 (July 1986): 76-85.
———. Power in the House: A History of the Leadership of the House of Representatives.
New York: P utnam, 1974.
———. “What the New Congress Needs Most: Concerning Choice of Chairmanships.” Harper’s Magazine
234 (January 1967): 79-81.
Bolling, Richard, and John Bowles. America’s Competitive Edge: How to Get Our Country Moving Again.
New York: McGraw-Hill Bok Company, Inc., 1982.
Lowe, David E. “The Bolling Committee and the Politics of Reorganization.” Capitol Studies
6 (Spring 1978): 39-61.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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