Charles Adams Mosher | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's13th district | |
| In office January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1977 | |
| Preceded by | Albert David Baumhart Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Don Pease |
| Member of theOhio Senate | |
| In office 1951-1960 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1906-05-07)May 7, 1906 |
| Died | November 16, 1984(1984-11-16) (aged 78) Oberlin, Ohio, US |
| Resting place | Westwood Cemetery, Oberlin |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater | Oberlin College |
Charles Adams Mosher (May 7, 1906 – November 16, 1984) was an American newspaperman and politician who served eight terms as aRepublican member of theUnited States House of Representatives fromOhio from 1961 to 1977.
Charles Adams Mosher was born inSandwich, Illinois. He graduated from Sandwich High School, andOberlin College in 1928. He was employed on daily newspapers inAurora, Illinois, andJanesville, Wisconsin, from 1929 to 1940. He was president and manager of the Oberlin Printing Company and editor-publisher of theOberlin News-Tribune, 1940-1961. He was vice chairman of Oberlin City Council, 1945-1951.
He was a member of theOhio State Senate from 1951 to 1960, a member of Ohio Legislative Service Commission from 1947 to 1959, and vice chairman of the Ohio School Survey Commission from 1954 to 1955. He was a delegate to the White House Conference on Education in 1955, director of the Oberlin Improvement and Development Corporation and a member of Presidential Commission on Marine Science, Engineering and Resources, 1967-1969.
In 1961 he was listed as being on the Committee on Science and Astronautics. Chaired byOverton Brooks, and therefore a contributor to what has now become popularly known as the 'Brookings Report' (1961). The report dealt with the long term implications for American Society of Space Exploration.
Mosher was elected as a Republican to theEighty-seventh and to the seven succeeding Congresses. He was not a candidate for re-election in1976 to theNinety-fifth Congress.
Mosher voted in favor of theCivil Rights Act of 1964, theVoting Rights Act of 1965, theMedicare program for the elderly, theCivil Rights Act of 1968, and alongside fellow RepublicansSeymour Halpern,F. Bradford Morse andOgden Reid, co-sponsored the Health Security Act of 1971, a bipartisan bill that advocated the creation of a government health program that would have covered every person in America.[1][2][3][4][5] In 1971, Mosher became Ranking Member of theHouse Science Committee after incumbent Ranking MemberJames G. Fulton passed away.[6]
In 1977, he was elected to theCommon Cause National Governing Board. He was the executive director of theHouse Science and Technology Committee inWashington, D.C., September 1977 – 1979. He was a fellow of theWoodrow Wilson Center at theSmithsonian Institution in 1980. He received his M.A. from Oberlin College in 1982. He was a resident of Oberlin, Ohio, until his death on November 16, 1984, at the age of 78.
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| Preceded by | Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromOhio's 13th congressional district 1961–1977 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Ranking Member of theHouse Science Committee 1971–1977 | Succeeded by |
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