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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IllinoisRalph Harold METCALFE
(1910-1978)
METCALFE, Ralph Harold, a
Representative from Illinois; born in Atlanta, Fulton County, Ga.,
May 29, 1910; attended the Chicago public schools; Ph.B., Marquette
University, Milwaukee, Wis., 1936; M.A., University of Southern
California, 1939; gold, silver, and bronze medal winner at the 1932
Olympics at Los Angeles, Calif., and the 1936 Olympics at Berlin,
Germany; track coach and political science instructor, Xavier
University, New Orleans, La., 1936-1942; served as first lieutenant
in United States Army; received Legion of Merit for program
planning as director of physical training; director, Department of
Civil Rights for Commission on Human Relations, 1945; Illinois
State Athletic Commissioner, 1949-1952; elected Democratic
committeeman (Third Ward), 1952, 1956, 1960, 1964, and 1968;
elected alderman in 1955, 1959, 1963, and 1967; elected president
pro tempore, Chicago City Council, 1969; appointed by Vice
President Hubert H. Humphrey, a member of the National A.A.U. and
N.C.A.A. Sports Arbitration Board; former member, Chicago Planning
Commission, 1964; member, Austin Committee to investigate the civil
disturbance in Chicago following the assassination of Martin Luther
King, Jr.; delegate to Illinois State Democratic conventions,
1953-1972; delegate to Democratic National Conventions, 1952-1972;
member of the President’s Commission on Olympic Sports,
1975-1977; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-second and to the
three succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1971, until
his death October 10, 1978, in Chicago, Ill.; had been a successful
candidate in the primary to the Ninety-sixth Congress; interment in
Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Worth, Ill.
Bibliography
”Ralph Harold Metcalfe” in Black Americans in
Congress, 1870-2007. Prepared under the direction of the
Committee on House Administration by the Office of History &
Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives. Washington:
Government Printing Office, 2008.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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