Albert David Baumhart Jr. (June 15, 1908 – January 23, 2001) was a

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member of the

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from

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. He served in

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from 1941 to 1942, and again from 1955 to 1961.

Early life

Baumhart was born in

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. He attended

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in Athens, Ohio, receiving his A.B. and M.A. in 1931.

Political career

He was a publishing house representative at Vermilion, Ohio, from 1932 to 1939. He was a member of the Ohio State Senate from 1937 to 1940. Baumhart was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh Congress. Throughout all of 1940 and most of 1941 he was known as an "interventionist Republican" who advocated that America go to war in Europe against Nazi Germany in order to help

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. He resigned to accept a commission in the

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on September 2, 1942. He was discharged as a lieutenant commander on January 17, 1946. He was a member of the public relations staff of

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Corp., in

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, from 1946 to 1953. He served as director of the

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in 1953 and 1954. Baumhart was again elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth, Eighty-fifth, and Eighty-sixth Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination in

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. Baumhart voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and

. He was a delegate to

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. He later worked as public relations consultant.

Death

He died on January 23, 2001, in Lorain, Ohio. He is interred at Maple Grove Cemetery in Vermilion, Ohio.

References

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