John Crutcher

John Crutcher (born December 19, 1916 in Ensign , Gray County , Kansas - † March 13, 2017 in Jefferson , Ashe County , North Carolina ) was an American politician . Between 1965 and 1969 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Kansas.

Career

In 1940 John Crutcher graduated from the University of Kansas . During the Second World War he served in the US Navy . Then he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1953 and 1957 he was a member of the Kansas Senate . In 1964 he was elected lieutenant governor of his state alongside William H. Avery . He held this office after a re-election between January 11, 1965 and January 13, 1969. He was Deputy Governor . Since 1967 he served under the new Governor Robert Docking .

After the end of his time as Lieutenant Governor, he continued his political career at the federal level. Under President Richard Nixon , he was director of the Division of State and Local Government . In 1974 and 1975 he was on the staff of US Senator Bob Dole . From 1975 to 1977 he was a division manager in the United States Department of the Interior . Then he was a member of the National Transportation Study Commission until 1979 . He also worked as an investment banker. During the presidential campaign of 1979/80 he worked on the election campaign team of Bob Dole, but then missed the nomination of his party, which went to Ronald Reagan . He appointed John Crutcher to the Postal Rate Commission in 1982 . He stayed there until October 1993.

Crutcher was a member of several organizations and associations.

Web links

• Crutcher, John William (b.1916) . The Political Graveyard (English)
• The lieutenant governors of Kansas
• Crutcher, John W. Our Campaigns (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tim Hrenchir: Crutcher, former Kansas lieutenant governor and critic of the US Postal Service, dies at 100 . The Topeka Capital-Journal, March 14, 2017, accessed March 15, 2017.
2. ^ Gerhard Peters, John T. Woolley: The American Presidency Project: Nomination of John W. Crutcher To Be a Commissioner of the Postal Rate Commission . The American Presidency Project, January 13, 1982, accessed March 15, 2017.
3. ^ Congressional Record: Salute to John Crutcher. (No longer available online.) Library of Congress's Congress.gov project , formerly the original ; accessed on March 15, 2017 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )