Gordon H. Scherer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Gordon H. Scherer

American politician

Date of Birth: 26-Dec-1906

Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 13-Aug-1988

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Gordon H. Scherer

  • Gordon Harry Scherer (26 December 1906, Cincinnati, Ohio – 13 August 1988, Cincinnati, Ohio) was an American politician of the Republican party who served as a U.S.
  • representative from Ohio from 1953 to 1963.
  • Scherer earned a law degree in 1929 from the Salmon P.
  • Chase College of Law and practiced law in Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • From 1933 to 1941, he worked for the Hamilton County, Ohio, prosecutor.
  • From 1943 to 1944, he served as Cincinnati's safety director.
  • From 1945 to 1946, Scherer served on the city's planning commission.
  • Scherer was then elected to the Cincinnati city council, on which he served from 1945 to 1949. In 1952, Scherer stood successfully for election to the U.S.
  • House of Representatives and began serving in 1953 (83rd Congress).
  • He was re-elected in 1954, 1956, 1958, and 1960.
  • He declined to run for election again in 1962, returning to his private law practice.
  • Following his time in Congress, Scherer served four term in the Ohio House of Representatives, from 1965 to 1972.
  • Scherer was a member of the U.S.
  • House of Representative's Committee on Un-American Activities, (HUAC). Scherer served as a delegate from Ohio to the 1964 and 1968 Republican National Convention.
  • He was chairman of the Hamilton County Republican Party from 1962 to 1968.
  • From 1970 to 1973, Scherer was a member of the United States National Commission for UNESCO.
  • He was on the executive board of that commission from 1974 to 1975.
  • In 1972, Scherer was appointed the U.S.
  • representative to the United Nations, in which capacity he served from 1972 to 1973.
  • He died in 1988.

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