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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—West VirginiaHECHLER, Kenneth William
(1914—)
HECHLER, Kenneth William, a Representative from West Virginia; born near Roslyn, Long Island, N.Y., September 20, 1914; graduated from Roslyn High School, Roslyn, N.Y., 1931; A.B., Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa., 1935; A.M., Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 1936; Ph.D., Columbia University, New York, N.Y., 1940; faculty, Columbia, Barnard, Princeton and Marshall Universities; research assistant, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman and President Franklin D. Roosevelt on Roosevelt’s public papers; section chief, Bureau of the Census, 1940; personnel officer, Office for Emergency Management, 1941; administrative analyst, United States Bureau of the Budget, in 1942 and 1946; United States Army, European Theater of Operations as combat historian, 1942-1946; special assistant to President Truman, 1949-1953; associate director of American Political Science Association at Washington, D.C., 1953-1956; research director, presidential campaign of Adlai Stevenson, 1956; administrative aide to Senator John A. Carroll of Colorado in 1957; delegate Democratic National Conventions, 1964, 1968, 1972, 1980 and 1984; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1977); was not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976, but was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of West Virginia; subsequently was an unsuccessful write-in candidate for reelection to the United States House of Representatives; television and newspaper journalist; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for nomination to the Ninety-sixth Congress in 1978; science consultant, House Committee on Science and Technology, 1980-1982; taught at the University of Charleston and Marshall University, 1981-1984; elected secretary of state of West Virginia in 1984; unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the One Hundred Second Congress in 1990; is a resident of Huntington, W.Va.
Bibliography
Moffat, Charles Hill. Ken Hechler: Maverick Public Servant
. Charleston, W.Va.: Mountain State Press, 1987.
Hechler, Ken. The Bridge at Remagen: The Amazing Story of March 7, 1945—-The Day the Rhine River was Crossed.
Foreword by Brig. Gen. S.L.A. Marshall. 1957. Reprint, Missoula, Mont.: Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, 1993.
———. Holding The Line: The 51st Engineer Combat Battalion and the Battle of the Bulge, December 1944-January 1945.
With a prologue and epilogue by Barry W. Fowle. Studies in Military Engineering, No. 4. Fort Belvior, Va.: Office of History, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 1988.
———. Insurgency: Personalities and Politics of the Taft Era.
1940. Reprint, New York: AMS Press, 1970.
———. Toward the Endless Frontier: History of the Committee on Science and Technology, 1959-79
. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. House of Representatives: For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, 1980.
———. West Virginia Memories of President Kennedy.
N.p.: Privately printed by the author, 1965.
———. Working with Truman. A Personal Memoir of the White House Years.
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1982.
Moffat, Charles Hill. Ken Hechler: Maverick Public Servant
. Charleston, W.Va.: Mountain State Press, 1987.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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