 |
History and Government—Congressional Biographies—ArizonaJohn Jacob RHODES
(1916-2003)
RHODES, John Jacob,
(father of John Jacob Rhodes III), a Representative from Arizona;
born in Council Grove, Morris County, Kans., September 18, 1916;
attended the public schools; graduated from Kansas State
University, Manhattan, Kans., 1938; graduated from Harvard Law
School, Cambridge, Mass., 1941; lawyer, private practice; United
States Army Air Corps, 1941-1946; staff judge advocate of Arizona
National Guard, 1947-1952; vice chairman, Arizona Board of Public
Welfare, 1951-1952; delegate, Republican National Conventions,
1952, 1964, and 1968; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-third
and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1953-January
3, 1983); minority leader (Ninety-third through Ninety-sixth
Congresses); was not a candidate for reelection in 1982; died on
August 24, 2003, in Mesa, Ariz.
Bibliography
Smith, J. Brian. John J. Rhodes: Man of the House. Phoenix,
Ariz.: Primer Publishers, 2005; Rhodes, John, with Dean Smith. I
Was There. Salt Lake City, UT: Northwest Publishing, 1995.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
Related Links
|
24 X 7
Private Tutor
|
24 x 7 Tutor Availability |
|
|
Unlimited Online Tutoring |
|
|
1-on-1 Tutoring |
|
