John Hall Buchanan, Jr.

John Hall Buchanan, Jr.

John Hall Buchanan, Jr. (* 19th March 1928 in Paris , Tennessee , † 5. March 2018 in Rockville , Maryland ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ). He represented the state of Alabama in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1981 .

Career

John Hall Buchanan, Jr. served in the U.S. Navy between 1945 and 1946 . He then moved to Alabama , where he graduated from Samford University in Birmingham in 1949 . He then went to the University of Virginia , where he wrote his thesis before succumbing to the Southern Theological Seminary in Louisville ( Kentucky changed). After graduating there in 1957, he served as a pastor in Tennessee, Virginia and Alabama for ten years .

Buchanan also had a political career. In 1962 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the 88th US Congress . He was also the finance director of the Alabama Republican Party between 1962 and 1964 . Then he was elected to the 89th US Congress and re - elected to the seven subsequent US Congresses . When he ran for the 97th US Congress in 1980 , he suffered a defeat. He served in the US House of Representatives from January 3, 1965 to January 3, 1981. During this time he was a member of the US delegation to the United Nations between 1973 and 1984 . He was also a member of the US delegation to the UN Human Rights Committee between 1978 and 1980 . From 1981 to 1983 he chaired the Fund for the Improvement of Tertiary Education in the Ministry of Education. Buchanan had presided over the People for the American Way since 1982 . Later he lived in Bethesda ( Maryland ).

Individual proof

1. ↑ John H. Buchanan Jr., Alabama GOP congressman who later joined liberal lobbying group, dies at 89

Web links

• John Hall Buchanan, Jr. in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)