John Y. McCollister

John Y. McCollister (1975)

John Yetter McCollister (born June 10, 1921 in Iowa City , Iowa , †  November 1, 2013 in Omaha , Nebraska ) was an American politician . Between 1971 and 1977 he represented the second constituency of the state of Nebraska in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John McCollister attended Washington High School in Sioux Falls ( South Dakota ) until 1939 and then studied at the University of Iowa until 1943 . From 1943 to 1946 he was a member of the US Navy Reserve . Between 1960 and 1971 and again from 1979 to 1986 he was President of McCollister & Co. in Omaha.

McCollister became a member of the Republican Party . Between 1965 and 1970 he served as County Commissioner in Douglas County . In the 1960s he was a delegate to all Republican party conventions in Nebraska; In 1968 he took part as a delegate to the Republican National Convention , where Richard Nixon was nominated as the party's presidential candidate.

In 1970 McCollister was elected to the US House of Representatives in the second constituency of Nebraska, where he succeeded Glenn Clarence Cunningham on January 3, 1971 . He was re-elected in 1972 and 1974 and thus exercised his mandate in Congress until January 3, 1977. In 1976 he decided not to run for the House of Representatives again; instead, he ran, albeit unsuccessfully, for a seat in the US Senate . He lost 47 percent to 53 percent of the vote to Edward Zorinsky , the mayor of Omaha. After that, McCollister largely withdrew from politics. In 2000, he was a Republican elector in the presidential election.

Most recently he lived in Omaha, where he died on November 1, 2013 at the age of 92.

Web links

• John Y. McCollister in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Former Rep. John McCollister dies at 92