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VANIK, Charles Albert, a Representative from Ohio; born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County,
Ohio, April 7, 1913; attended the public schools; graduated from Adelbert
College of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1933; graduated from
Western Reserve University Law School in 1936; admitted to the bar in 1936;
lawyer, private practice; member of Cleveland City Council in 1938 and 1939;
member of the Cleveland state senate, 1940-1942; member of the Cleveland Board
of Education in 1941 and 1942; United States Naval Reserve as an ensign in 1942
and served with amphibious forces of the Atlantic and Pacific Fleets; released
from active duty as a lieutenant in December 1945; appointed a member of the
Cleveland Library Board in January 1946; elected judge of Cleveland Municipal
Court in 1947 and reelected in 1949 for a six-year term, but resigned in March
1954 to campaign for Congress; served as referee with Ohio Industrial
Commission; legal adviser to the Ohio highway director; elected as a Democrat
to the Eighty-fourth and to the twelve succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1955-January 3, 1981); not a candidate for reelection to the Ninety-seventh
Congress in 1980; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; died on
August 30, 2007, in Jupiter, Fla.
BibliographyRalph Nader Congress Project.
Citizens Look at Congress: Charles A. Vanik, Democratic Representative
from Ohio. Washington, D. C.: Grossman Publishers,
1972.
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