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BRADEMAS, John, a Representative from Indiana; born in Mishawaka, Saint Joseph
County, Ind., March 2, 1927; graduated from Central High School, South Bend,
Ind.; graduated from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1949; Oxford
University, Oxford, England, 1954; United States Navy, 1945-1946; staff for
United States Senator Pat McNamara of Michigan, 1955; staff for United States
Representative Thomas L. Ashley of Ohio, 1955; executive assistant to Adlai E.
Stevenson in 1955 and 1956; assistant professor, Saint Marys College, Notre
Dame, Ind., 1957- 1958; member of congressional delegation to First
Inter-American Conference, Lima, Peru, 1959; unsuccessful Democratic candidate
for election to the Eighty-fourth Congress in 1954 and to the Eighty-fifth
Congress in 1956; elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the ten
succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1981); majority whip
(Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixth Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection to the Ninety-seventh Congress in 1980; president, New York
University, New York, N.Y., 1981-1992.
BibliographyBrademas, John.
Washington, D.C. to Washington Square. New York: Weidenfield
and Nicolson, 1986; Brademas, John, with Lynne P. Brown.
The Politics of Education: Conflict and Consensus on Capitol
Hill. 1987. Reprint, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press,
2002.
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