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METCALFE, Ralph Harold, a Representative from Illinois; born in Atlanta, Fulton County, Ga.,
May 29, 1910; attended the Chicago public schools; Ph.B., Marquette University,
Milwaukee, Wis., 1936; M.A., University of Southern California, 1939; member of
the United States Olympic Team in 1932 and 1936; track coach and political
science instructor, Xavier University, New Orleans, La., 1936-1942; served as
first lieutenant in United States Army; received Legion of Merit for program
planning as director of physical training; director, Department of Civil Rights
for Commission on Human Relations, 1945; Illinois State Athletic Commissioner,
1949-1952; elected Democratic committeeman (Third Ward), 1952, 1956, 1960,
1964, and 1968; elected alderman in 1955, 1959, 1963, and 1967; elected
president pro tempore, Chicago City Council, 1969; appointed by Vice President
Hubert H. Humphrey, a member of the National A.A.U. and N.C.A.A. Sports
Arbitration Board; former member, Chicago Planning Commission, 1964; member,
Austin Committee to investigate the civil disturbance in Chicago following the
assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.; delegate to Illinois State Democratic
conventions, 1953-1972; delegate to Democratic National Conventions, 1952-1972;
member of the Presidents Commission on Olympic Sports, 1975-1977; elected as a
Democrat to the Ninety-second and to the three succeeding Congresses and served
from January 3, 1971, until his death October 10, 1978, in Chicago, Ill.; had
been a successful candidate in the primary to the Ninety-sixth Congress;
interment in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Worth, Ill.
BibliographyRalph Harold Metcalfe in
Black Americans in Congress, 1870-2007. Prepared under the
direction of the Committee on House Administration by the Office of History
& Preservation, U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government
Printing Office, 2008.
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