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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaCharles Abraham HALLECK
(1900-1986)
HALLECK, Charles Abraham,
a Representative from Indiana; born in Demotte, Jasper County,
Ind., August 22, 1900; attended the public schools; during the
First World War served in the Infantry of the United States Army;
Indiana University at Bloomington, A.B., 1922 and from the law
department of the same university, LL.B., 1924; was admitted to the
bar in 1924 and commenced practice in Rensselaer, Ind.; prosecuting
attorney for the thirtieth judicial circuit 1924-1934; elected as a
Republican to the Seventy-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Congressman-elect Frederick Landis;
reelected to the Seventy-fifth and to the fifteen succeeding
Congresses and served from January 29, 1935, to January 3, 1969;
majority leader (Eightieth and Eighty-third Congresses); minority
leader (Eighty-sixth, Eighty-seventh, and Eighty-eighth
Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection in 1968 to the
Ninety-first Congress; delegate to each Republican National
Convention from 1936 to 1968, and permanent chairman in 1960; was a
resident of Rensselaer, Ind. until his death in Lafayette, Ind.,
March 3, 1986; interment in Weston Cemetery, Rensselaer.
Bibliography
Peabody, Robert L. The Ford-Halleck Minority Leadership
Contest. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1966; Womack, Steven Douglas.
“Charles A. Halleck and the New Frontier: Political
Opposition through the Madisonian Model.” Ph.D. dissertation,
Ball State University, 1980.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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