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Senate Years of Service: 1957-1969 Party: Democrat
LAUSCHE, Frank John, a Senator from Ohio; born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio November 14,
1895; attended Central Institute Prep School in 1915 and 1916; during the First World War served
as second lieutenant in the United States Army; graduated from John Marshall School of Law in
1920; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced the practice of law in Cleveland, Ohio;
judge of Municipal Court 1932-1937; judge of Common Pleas Court 1937-1941; mayor of
Cleveland 1941-1944; Governor of Ohio from 1945 until his resignation effective January 3, 1957,
having been elected to the Senate; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1956,
reelected in 1962, and served from January 3, 1957, until January 3, 1969; unsuccessful candidate for
renomination in 1968; died in Cleveland, Ohio, April 21, 1990; interment in Calvary Cemetery.
BibliographyScribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Bittner, William C. Frank J. Lausche: A Political Biography. New York:
Studia Slovenica, 1975; Odenkirk, James E. Frank J. Lausche: Ohios Great Political
Maverick. Wilmington, Ohio: Orange Frazer Press, 2005.
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