Ted Risenhoover

Theodore Marshall Risenhoover, 1975

Theodore Marshall "Ted" Risenhoover (born November 3, 1934 in East Liberty , Haskell County , Oklahoma , † September 10, 2006 in Claremore , Oklahoma) was an American politician . Between 1975 and 1979 he represented the 2nd Congressional Constituency of Oklahoma in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Theodore Risenhoover attended Stigler High School and the University of Alabama between 1960 and 1961 . He then continued his education at Northeastern State University of Oklahoma until 1965 . Between 1955 and 1963 he was a member of the US Air Force , which enabled him to study in Alabama. After his military and college years, Risenhoover got into the newspaper business. In 1965 he became co-owner and president of a publishing house in Tahlequah . Between 1970 and 1974 he was also a Crime Commissioner in the Second District of Oklahoma.

As a member of the Democratic Party , he was a delegate to their national interparty convention in 1974. In the congressional elections of that year Risenhoover was elected to the US House of Representatives in the second district of Oklahoma, where he replaced Clem McSpadden on January 3, 1975 . After a re-election in 1976 , he was in 1978 no longer nominated by his party, as it in the code his opponent Mike Synar was inferior, and retired from the on January 3, 1979 Congress of. Then he withdrew from politics.

Web links

• Ted Risenhoover in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Ted Risenhoover in the database of Find a Grave (English)