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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; chairman of the National
Governors Conference 1950-1951; 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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