F. Jay Nimtz

F. Jay Nimtz

Floyd Jay Nimtz (born December 1, 1915 in South Bend , Indiana , †  December 6, 1990 there ) was an American politician . Between 1957 and 1959 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jay Nimtz attended the public schools in his home country and then studied at Indiana University until 1938 . After a subsequent law degree at the same university and his admission as a lawyer in 1940, he began to work in South Bend in this profession. During the Second World War Nimtz served in the US Army , in which he rose to lieutenant colonel. He was used in Europe. Later he was a colonel in the Army Reserve. In 1958, Nimtz was vice chairman of the Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission . He was also a member of the St. Joseph County Welfare Committee .

Politically, Nimtz was a member of the Republican Party . In the 1956 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded Shepard J. Crumpacker on January 3, 1957 . Since he was not confirmed in 1958, he could only hold one term in Congress until January 3, 1959 . After leaving the US House of Representatives, he returned to practice as a lawyer. In 1960 he applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress.

Between 1979 and 1986, Jay Nimtz served on the Indiana Air Pollution Control Committee. From 1981 to 1986 he was also a member of his state's environmental protection committee. From 1974 until his death, he headed his hometown South Bend Development Committee. He died there on December 6, 1990.

Web links

• F. Jay Nimtz in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Jay F. Nimtz in the database of Find a Grave (English)