John Carl Hinshaw, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJohn Carl Hinshaw
American politician
Date of Birth: 28-Jul-1894
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Date of Death: 05-Aug-1956
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About John Carl Hinshaw
- John Carl Hinshaw (July 28, 1894 – August 5, 1956) was a United States Representative from California.
- He was born in Chicago, Illinois, son of William Wade and Anna Williams Hinshaw.
- He attended the public schools and Valparaiso University.
- He graduated from Princeton University in 1916 and pursued a postgraduate course in business administration at the University 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 after World 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 1920-1926.
- He also engaged in investment banking in 1927 and 1928. Hinshaw moved to Pasadena, 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 a Republican to the Seventy-sixth and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939 until his death in Bethesda, Maryland in 1956.
- He had been renominated in the June 1956 primary election.
- He was buried in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C. Hinshaw was a member of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, and the Congressional Air Policy Board (Vice-Chairman, 1947).
- He received the Air Force Association's Citation of Honor in 1948, and in 1953 Hinshaw received the National Aeronautic Association's Wright 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."
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