Neil Staebler

Neil Staebler

Neil Oliver Staebler (born July 11, 1905 in Ann Arbor , Michigan , †  December 8, 2000 there ) was an American politician . Between 1963 and 1965 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Neil Staebler attended Ann Harbor High School until 1922 and then studied at the University of Michigan until 1926 . In 1942 and 1943 he worked for the Office of Price Administration . Between 1943 and 1945 Staebler served as a soldier in the US Navy during World War II . After the war he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1950 and 1961 he was party chairman for the Michigan Democrats. From 1961 to 1964 and again from 1965 to 1968 he was also a member of the Democratic National Committee . Between 1952 and 1968 he was a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions . In 1962, Staebler was visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts .

In the 1964 congressional elections , he was elected nationwide for the newly established 19th seat of Michigan in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 1965. Since he renounced another candidacy in 1966, he could only complete one term in Congress until January 3, 1967 . This was determined by the events of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement . In 1964 Staebler ran for the office of governor of Michigan, where he came to 43.7 percent of the vote and was thus subject to the Republican incumbent George W. Romney . Between 1975 and 1978 he was a member of the Federal Electoral Commission . He died on December 8, 2000 at the age of 95 of complications from Alzheimer's disease .

Web links

• Neil Staebler in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)