John Jacob Rhodes III

John Jacob Rhodes III

John Jacob Rhodes III (born September 8, 1943 in Mesa , Arizona , † January 20, 2011 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . From 1987 to 1993 he represented the first congressional constituency of the state of Arizona in the US House of Representatives .

Life

John Rhodes III was the son of John Jacob Rhodes , who represented the first constituency of Arizona in the US House of Representatives between 1953 and 1983. He attended the Landon School in Bethesda (Maryland) until 1961 . He then studied at Yale University until 1965 . After completing a law degree at the University of Arizona , he was admitted to the bar in 1968. Then he began to work in Mesa in his new profession. From 1968 to 1970 he was used as a captain in the US Army in the Vietnam War.

Like his father, Rhodes became a member of the Republican Party . From 1972 to 1982 he was district chairman of his party. From 1973 to 1976 he was a member of the Mesa Education Committee. Between 1983 and 1986 he worked for the water supply in Central Arizona ("Central Arizona Water Conservation District").

In the 1986 congressional elections, he was elected to succeed John McCain in the US House of Representatives. He took over the seat that his father had held for 30 years until 1983. He exercised this mandate over three legislative periods from January 3, 1987 to January 3, 1993. In 1992 he was not re-elected and his seat fell to Sam Coppersmith , the Democratic Party candidate .

Web links

• John Jacob Rhodes III in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Former Arizona Congressman John Rhodes III dies. Retrieved September 28, 2016 .