Tom Kindness

Tom Kindness (1981)

Thomas Norman "Tom" Kindness (born August 26, 1929 in Knoxville , Tennessee , †  January 8, 2004 in Exeter , England ) was an American politician . Between 1975 and 1987 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Tom Kindness attended Glendale High School in California until 1947 and then studied at the University of Maryland in College Park until 1951 . After a subsequent law degree at George Washington University and his admission as a lawyer in 1953, he began to work in this profession. Between 1957 and 1973 he was an Assistant Counsel for the Hamilton- based paper mill Champion International Corp. active. Between 1964 and 1967 he served as Mayor of Hamilton. There he sat on the local council until 1969. Politically, he joined the Republican Party . Between 1971 and 1974 he was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives . He also took part as a delegate to several local Republican party conventions in Ohio.

In the 1974 congressional election , Kindness was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Ohio , where he succeeded Walter E. Powell on January 3, 1975 . After five re-elections, he was able to complete six legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1987 . In 1986 he was one of the MPs charged with conducting impeachment proceedings against Federal Judge Harry E. Claiborne . In the same year he gave up another candidacy. Instead, he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for the US Senate elections . In 1990 he ran again in the congressional primaries of his party, but lost to John Boehner . He died on January 8, 2004 in Exeter, England.

Web links

Commons : Tom Kindness  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Tom Kindness in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Tom Kindness in the database of Find a Grave (English)