Ronald Milton Mottl (born February 6, 1934) is an American lawyer and politician who served as a Democratic member of the state House of Representatives of Ohio from 1987 to 1997. Before that, he served four terms in the

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from 1975 to 1983.

Early life

Mottl was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Miroslav Václav Josef Mottl (1899-1945) and Anna Huml (1903-1990), a couple of

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descent. His father, an immigrant from Počaply, died from chronic

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when he was 11. His mother, born in

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to parents from Kvaň and Mýto, remarried to Václav Schovánek (1907-1987) from

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. Mottl graduated from

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in 1952 and later was inducted into the school’s athletic hall of fame. He attended the

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for which he played baseball in 1955. He served in the

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s in 1957.

Career

He is a lawyer, and served in the city council of

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from 1960 to 1966 and the Ohio state legislature from 1967 until 1975, before serving in the

from 1975 to 1983. A

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Democrat, Mottl was an ally of Ronald Reagan's legislative agenda. He lost the Democratic primary to Ed Feighan in 1982, thereby losing his seat. He then returned to local politics, serving on the Parma school board from 1985 until 1986, and as president of the school board in 1986, until he was elected to the

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, where he served until 1997. He now lives in

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, and was an unsuccessful candidate for Mayor of North Royalton in 1999.

Personal life

Mottl has four children. Ronald Jr. and Rhonda are from his first marriage and Ron Michael and Amanda Leigh are from his second marriage to Debbi.

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