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OHARA, James Grant, a Representative from Michigan; born in Washington, D.C., November
8, 1925; moved with his parents to Michigan, in 1939; graduated from University
of Detroit High School in 1943; during the Second World War served as an
enlisted man in the United States Army with Company B, Five Hundred and
Eleventh Parachute Infantry Regiment, Eleventh Airborne Division, seeing action
in the Pacific Theater of Operations; graduated from the University of Michigan
in 1954 and from the law department of the same university in 1955; was
admitted to the bar in 1955 and commenced the practice of law in Detroit and
Macomb County, Mich.; delegate, Democratic National Conventions, 1960 and 1968;
elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the eight succeeding
Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1977); was not a candidate in 1976 for
reelection but was an unsuccessful candidate for nomination to the United
States Senate; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; member, and
later chairman, Federal Minimum Wage Study Commission, 1978-1981; was a
resident of Alexandria, Va., until his death in Washington, D.C., on March 13,
1989: interment in Arlington National Cemetery.
BibliographyRalph Nader Congress Project.
Citizens Look at Congress: James G. OHara, Democratic Representative
from Michigan. Washington, D. C.: Grossman Publishers,
1972.
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