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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—West VirginiaKenneth William HECHLER
(1914-Â )
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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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