Samuel L. Devine

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Samuel L. Devine (1977)

Samuel Leeper Devine (* 21st December 1915 in South Bend , Indiana ; †  27. June 1997 in Upper Arlington , Ohio ) was an American politician of the Republican Party . Between 1959 and 1981 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1920 Samuel Devine came to Columbus , Ohio. He attended public schools there as well as those in Grandview and Upper Arlington. In 1933 and 1934 he graduated from Colgate University and then until 1937 Ohio State University . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and his admission as a lawyer in 1940, he began to practice in Columbus. From 1940 to October 1945 he worked as a special agent for the FBI and was active in the counter sabotage and espionage during the Second World War . He was also the FBI's liaison officer to the Military Intelligence Office of Naval Intelligence . He then continued his legal practice in Columbus.

From 1951 to 1955 he was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives . There he was chairman of the Joint Committee on Un-American Activities in Ohio with the State Senate . Between 1955 and 1958, Devine was a prosecutor in Franklin County . He was also an official in American college football for 27 years .

In the 1958 election , Devine was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the twelfth congressional constituency of Ohio , where he succeeded John Martin Vorys on January 3, 1959 . The constituency comprised Franklin County with parts of the capital Columbus and some rural areas. Devine was elected vice chairman of the House Republican Conference in 1974 and re-elected in 1976 and 1978; on June 20, 1979 he was elected chairman of the 96th Congress , making him the third most senior Republican leader in the House of Representatives. Most recently, he was an influential, top-ranking opposition member ( ranking member ) in the Committee on Trade, Transport and Energy .

Devine was re-elected ten times. In the 1980 election , he lost to Democrat Bob Shamansky with 47 to 53 percent of the vote after wealthy lawyer Shamansky invested $ 90,000 of his fortune in a radio campaign and Devine held back in the election campaign. Shamansky was still by a large margin inferior to Devine in the 1966 election in the same district . Devine and retired from the on January 3, 1981 Congress of. After that, he no longer appeared politically.

He lived in Columbus with his wife, Betty Galloway, whom he married in 1940, and died in 1997 at his home in Upper Arlington after developing cancer. Her daughter, Carol Miller , has been a Congresswoman for West Virginia's 3rd Congressional District as of January 3, 2019 .

Web links

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supporting documents

  1. ^ Devine, Samuel L. In: OurCampaigns.com.
  2. ^ A b c Samuel L. Devine Dies at 81. In: The Washington Post , June 29, 1997.
  3. ↑ Lee Fang: Deep in Trump Country, a Democratic Populist Is Facing Off Against a Country Club Republican. In: The Intercept , May 22, 2018.
personal data
SURNAME Devine, Samuel L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Devine, Samuel Leeper (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Republican Party politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH South Bend , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1997
Place of death Upper Arlington , Ohio