Myrl Shoemaker

Myrl Howard Shoemaker (born April 14, 1913 in Chillicothe , Ohio , †  July 30, 1985 in Bourneville , Ohio) was an American politician . Between 1983 and 1985 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Ohio.

Career

Nothing is known about the youth and school education of Myrl Shoemaker. There is also no information in the sources about his career outside of politics. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party . In 1956 he ran unsuccessfully for the Ohio House of Representatives , which he then belonged to between 1959 and 1982 without interruption. For ten years he was chairman of the finance committee there.

Gravestone of Myrl Shoemaker

In 1982 Shoemaker was elected Lieutenant Governor of Ohio alongside Dick Celeste . He held this office between 1983 and his death. He was the governor's deputy . But he was no longer chairman of the state senate . Since 1979, the personal union between the lieutenant governor and the Senate president was abolished in Ohio. In addition to his work as Lieutenant Governor Shoemaker also held the office of Director of Natural Resources , from which he resigned on July 1, 1985 for health reasons. He had been fighting cancer since 1983, to which he succumbed on July 30, 1985. The office of vice governor remained vacant until the next election. Myrl Shoemaker and his wife Dorothy had eight children, including their son Mike , born in 1945 , who was a member of both Chambers of the Ohio General Assembly .

Web links

• The Political Graveyard
• Death report in the Orlando Sentinel
• Death report in the Chicago Tribune
• Myrl Shoemaker in the database of Find a Grave (English)