Carl Hinshaw | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromCalifornia | |
| In office January 3, 1939 – August 5, 1956 | |
| Preceded by | John S. McGroarty |
| Succeeded by | H. Allen Smith |
| Constituency | 11th district (1939–1943) 20th district (1943–1956) |
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| Born | John Carl Williams Hinshaw (1894-07-28)July 28, 1894 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | August 5, 1956(1956-08-05) (aged 62) Bethesda, Maryland, U.S. |
| Resting place | Rock Creek Cemetery Washington, D.C., U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater | Princeton University (BA) University of Michigan |
John Carl Williams Hinshaw (July 28, 1894 – August 5, 1956) was an American businessman and politician who served nine terms as aUnited States representative fromCalifornia from 1939 to 1956.
He was born inChicago, Illinois, in 1894, the son of William Wade and Anna Williams Hinshaw. He attended the public schools andValparaiso University. He graduated fromPrinceton University in 1916 and pursued a postgraduate course in business administration at theUniversity of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
He served overseas as a First Lieutenant in the Sixteenth Railroad Engineers from May 1917 to September 1919 during and immediately afterWorld War I. He was then discharged as a captain in the Corps of Engineers.
He served as laborer, salesman, and manager in automotive manufacturing in Chicago from 1920 to 1926. He also engaged in investment banking in 1927 and 1928.
Hinshaw moved toPasadena, California in 1929 and engaged in the real estate and insurance business. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress.
He was elected as aRepublican to the Seventy-sixth and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939, until his death inBethesda, Maryland in 1956. He had been renominated in the June 1956 primary election, and was replaced on the general election ballot byH. Allen Smith, who won the full term.
He was a member of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, theJoint Atomic Energy Committee, and the Congressional Air Policy Board (Vice-chairman, 1947[1]). He received the Air Force Association's Citation of Honor in 1948,[2] and in 1953 Hinshaw received the National Aeronautic Association'sWright Brothers Memorial Trophy "For his service as a Member of the House of Representatives in fostering the sound and consistent growth of aviation in all its forms, so that it might become a deterrent to war and that it might increasingly become an important carrier of the people and the commerce of the world."[3]
He died inWashington, D.C. on August 5, 1956 at the age of 62. He was buried inRock Creek Cemetery.
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| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromCalifornia's 11th congressional district 1939–1943 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Member of the U.S. House of Representatives fromCalifornia's 20th congressional district 1943–1956 | Succeeded by |
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