John Carl Williams Hinshaw (July 28, 1894 – August 5, 1956) was an American businessman and politician who served nine terms as a

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from

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from 1939 to 1956.

Biography

He was born in

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, in 1894, the son of William Wade and Anna Williams Hinshaw. He attended the public schools and

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. He graduated from

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in 1916 and pursued a postgraduate course in business administration at the

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at Ann Arbor.

World War I

He served overseas as a First Lieutenant in the Sixteenth Railroad Engineers from May 1917 to September 1919 during and immediately after

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. He was then discharged as a captain in the Corps of Engineers.

Business career

He served as laborer, salesman, and manager in automotive manufacturing in Chicago from 1920 to 1926. He also engaged in investment banking in 1927 and 1928. Hinshaw moved to

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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.

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

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in 1956. He had been renominated in the June 1956 primary election, and was replaced on the general election ballot by

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, who won the full term. He 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

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"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.""National Aeronautic Association Awards, Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy, Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy Winners 1948 – 1959" (retrieved 13-Nov-2011).

Death and burial

He died in

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on August 5, 1956 at the age of 62. He was buried in

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References

Sources

* "Carl Hinshaw, Late a Representative from California," Memorial Services, Eighty-Fifth Congress, First Session (United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1957)

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hinshaw, John Carl 1894 births 1956 deaths Politicians from Chicago Valparaiso University alumni Princeton University alumni United States Army officers United States Army personnel of World War I Ross School of Business alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from California Military personnel from Illinois 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives