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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriRichard Walker BOLLING
(1916-1991)
BOLLING, Richard Walker,
(great-great-grandson of John Williams Walker and
great-great-nephewof 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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