Paul H. Todd

Paul Harold Todd Jr. (born September 22, 1921 in Kalamazoo , Michigan , †  November 18, 2008 there ) was an American politician . Between 1965 and 1967 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Paul Todd came from a well-known political family in Michigan. His father Paul Todd Sr. was the mayor of Kalamazoo; his grandfather Albert M. Todd (1850-1931) also represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives between 1897 and 1899. He attended Beverly Hills High School in California until 1937 and then studied at Cornell University in Ithaka ( New York ) until 1942 . During World War II , Todd served in the US Army intelligence service between 1942 and 1945 .

In 1958 Paul Todd founded Kalamazoo Spice Extraction Co. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . In 1962 he ran unsuccessfully against the Republican incumbent August E. Johansen for the US House of Representatives. In the 1964 congressional elections he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Johansen on January 3, 1965. Since he lost to Garry E. Brown in the 1966 election, he could only serve one term in Congress until January 3, 1967 . This was determined by the events of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement .

From 1967 to 1970 Paul Todd was CEO of the Planned Parenthood Federation ; between 1972 and 1976 he was a member of the Michigan State Government's Ethics Committee. In the meantime, Todd devoted himself to his private business. In 1994, he applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress. He died on November 18, 2008 in his hometown of Kalamazoo.

Web links

• Paul H. Todd in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Paul H. Todd in the database of Find a Grave (English)