John W. Wydler

John W. Wydler

John Waldemar Wydler (born June 9, 1924 in Brooklyn , New York , † August 4, 1987 in Washington, DC ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1963 and 1981 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Waldemar Wydler attended the West School of Long Beach , Long Beach High School, and Brown University in Providence . He signed up on November 16, 1942 as a private in the United States Army Air Corps . Wydler was promoted to staff sergeant in a chemical weapons company and assigned to the units in the China-Burma-India theater of war . He was released in November 1945. He then served as a lieutenant in the Judge Advocate's Office and the Air Force Reserve between 1945 and 1955 . Then he resumed his studies at Brown University, where he stayed until 1957. Wydler then went to Harvard University Law School , which he left again in 1950 with a Bachelor of Laws . He was admitted to the bar in October 1950. Between 1953 and 1959 he worked in the federal attorney's office for the eastern district of New York . Wydler opened his own law firm in Mineola in 1959 .

Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . In the 1962 congressional election he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington DC in the fourth constituency of New York, where he succeeded Seymour Halpern on January 4, 1963 . He was re-elected four times in a row. He then ran for the US House of Representatives in the fifth constituency of New York. After a successful election, Norman F. Lent took over on January 4, 1973 . He was re-elected three times in a row. Since he refused to run again in 1980 , he resigned from Congress after January 3, 1981 . As a congressman, he took part in the 1968 Republican National Convention .

He then presided over the Long Island Development Agency . Wydler lived in Garden City . He died on August 4, 1987 in Washington DC and was then buried in Holy Rood Cemetery in Garden City.

Web links

• John W. Wydler in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John W. Wydler in the database of Find a Grave (English)