John B. Hollister

John B. Hollister

John Baker Hollister (* 7. November 1890 in Cincinnati , Ohio ; † 4. January 1979 ) was an American politician of the Republican Party . From 1931 to 1937 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the United States for the first  congressional district of the state of Ohio.

biography

John Baker Hollister was born in Cincinnati. With his parents he moved to Concord where he successfully graduated from public schools. In 1911 he was able to graduate from Yale University . He then went to Germany for a year to study at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After his return from Germany he participated in the Harvard University , a law degree on this, he finished in 1915. In the same year he was admitted to the bar and opened a law firm in Cincinnati.

In the rank of First Lieutenant he served in France during the First World War . After returning from the war, he resumed his legal practice. He was a director of various companies in the private sector. From 1921 to 1929 he was a member of the Cincinnati Board of Education .

In a special election in 1931 he was elected to the US House of Representatives as the successor to the late Nicholas Longworth as representative of the 1st District of Ohio. He sat in the House until 1937, and in 1936 did not stand for re-election. Hollister was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1940, 1944, 1948, and 1952.

He was drawn back to Cincinnati where he died in 1979 at the age of 88. He was cremated and his ashes were buried in Spring Grove Cemetery .

Web links

• John B. Hollister in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John B. Hollister in the database of Find a Grave (English)