John Brademas

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John Brademas

John W. Brademas (born March 2, 1927 in Mishawaka , Indiana , † July 11, 2016 in New York City , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1959 and 1981 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Brademas attended Central High School in South Bend . He served in the US Navy in 1945 and 1946 . He then studied at Harvard University until 1949 and at the University of Oxford in England until 1954 . Politically, Brademas joined the Democratic Party . In 1955 he worked for United States Senator Patrick V. McNamara from Michigan . At the same time he was also the congressman Thomas Ashley of Ohio and Democratic presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson worked. Between 1957 and 1958 he was a faculty member at Saint Mary's College , Notre Dame .

In 1954 and 1956 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress . In the 1958 congressional election , Brademas was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded F. Jay Nimtz on January 3, 1959 . After ten re-elections, he was able to complete eleven legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1981 . In 1959 he was a member of the congress delegation at the first Inter-American Conference in the Peruvian capital Lima . The Vietnam War took place during his time as a member of Congress . In 1974, the Watergate Affair also overshadowed the work of the US House of Representatives. In those years the civil rights movement also ended . In 1980, John Brademas, then Whip, was defeated by the Democratic majority, Republican John P. Hiler .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Brademas succeeded John C. Sawhill as President of New York University in New York City . He held this position between 1981 and 1992. As a result, Brademas was a member of numerous commissions that dealt with culture, education, foreign policy, technology and history. He served on the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the New York Stock Exchange . Most recently, he was also the chairman of the American Ditchley Foundation .

In 1969 Brademas was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Longtime Indiana congressman Brademas dies at 89
  2. ^ American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Book of Members ( PDF ). Retrieved April 15, 2016

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personal data
SURNAME Brademas, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brademas, John W. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Mishawaka , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 2016
Place of death New York City