Richard L. Roudebush

Richard L. Roudebush

Richard Lowell Roudebush (born January 18, 1918 in Noblesville , Hamilton County , Indiana , † January 28, 1995 ) was an American politician . Between 1961 and 1971 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Richard Roudebush attended the public schools in his home country and then studied until 1941 at Butler University in Indianapolis . During the Second World War he was a soldier in the United States Army between 1941 and 1944 . He was deployed in the Middle East, North Africa and Italy . After the war he worked as a farmer and was a partner in a company that dealt with the cattle trade. In 1957 and 1958, Roudebush served as the head of a nationwide organization for war veterans ; from 1954 to 1960 he was chairman of the Indiana State Veterans Commission.

Politically, Roudebush was a member of the Republican Party . In the 1960 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the sixth constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded Fred Wampler on January 3, 1961 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1971 . Between 1967 and 1969 he represented the tenth and since 1969 the fifth district of his state. During this time, the beginning of the Vietnam War and the climax of the civil rights movement fell .

In 1970 Richard Roudebush declined to run again for the US House of Representatives. Instead, he applied for the US Senate , but was defeated by the Democratic incumbent Vance Hartke with a difference of just over 4,000 votes. Between 1971 and 1977 Roudebush headed as the successor to Donald E. Johnson the Veterans Administration , a government agency that later became today's War Veterans Ministry. He died on January 28, 1995.

Web links

• Richard L. Roudebush in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Richard L. Roudebush in the database of Find a Grave (English)