President Ford Committee Records. 1975 - 1977. John Deardourff's Files on the General Election

Bowen, Otis R., 1918-

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Otis Ray Bowen was born February 26, 1918, near Leiter's Ford, Indiana to Vernie Bowen and Pearl Irene Wright. He graduated from Indiana University with an AB in 1939 and MD in 1942. He married Elizabeth Ann Steinmann in 1939. Following her death in 1981, on 26 September 1981 he married Rose May Hochstetler. He began his medical career on an internship from Memorial Hospital in South Bend, Indiana in 1942. From 1943 to 1946 he served in the Medical Corps of the U.S. Army, rising from the rank of...

Bond, Christopher S.

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Chafee, John H., 1922-1999

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Politician, lawyer, U.S. Marine officer. Republican John H. Chafee, a combat veteran of World War II and the Korean War, served Rhode Island as State Representative (1957-62), Governor (1963-68), and U.S. Senator (1977-99). He also served as U.S. Secretary of the Navy during the Nixon administration (1969-72). From the description of Papers, 1962-1976. (University of Rhode Island Library, Kingston). WorldCat record id: 47440286 ...

Thompson, James Robert, 1936-2020

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James R. Thompson, Illinois’ 39th governor, held the record for being Illinois’ governor with the longest term in office. Thompson, a Republican, was elected for a two year term in 1976, and reelected for 3 four year terms. After 14 years in office, Thompson did not run for another four year term in 1990. Thompson was born in Chicago on May 8, 1936. From 1959 to 1964 Thompson was a prosecutor for the Cook County States Attorney’s Office. In 1969 he was appointed Chief of the Department of Law En...