Charles Adams Mosher, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetCharles Adams Mosher
American politician
Date of Birth: 07-May-1906
Place of Birth: Sandwich, Illinois, United States
Date of Death: 16-Nov-1984
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Charles Adams Mosher
- Charles Adams Mosher (May 7, 1906 – November 16, 1984) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio. Charles Adams Mosher was born in Sandwich, Illinois.
- He graduated from Sandwich High School, and Oberlin College in 1928.
- He was employed on daily newspapers in Aurora, Illinois, and Janesville, Wisconsin, from 1929 to 1940.
- He was president and manager of the Oberlin Printing Company and editor-publisher of the Oberlin News-Tribune, 1940-1961.
- He was vice chairman of Oberlin City Council, 1945-1951.
- He was a member of the Ohio 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 by Overton 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 the Eighty-seventh and to the seven succeeding Congresses.
- He was not a candidate for re-election in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress.
- In 1977, he was elected to the Common Cause National Governing Board.
- He was the executive director of the House Science and Technology Committee in Washington, D.C., September 1977 – 1979.
- He was a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson Center at the Smithsonian 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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