Charles Adams Mosher (May 7, 1906 – November 16, 1984) was an American newspaperman and politician who served eight terms as a Republican member of the

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from

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from 1961 to 1977.

Early life and career

Charles Adams Mosher was born in

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. He graduated from Sandwich High School, and

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in 1928. He was employed on daily newspapers in

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, and

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, 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.

State legislature

He was a member of the

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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

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, 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.

Congress

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

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to the Ninety-fifth Congress. Mosher voted in favor of the

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, the

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, the Medicare program for the elderly, the

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, and alongside fellow Republicans

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, F. Bradford Morse and

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, co-sponsored the Health Security Act of 1971, a bipartisan bill that advocated the creation of a government health program that would have covered every person in America. In 1971, Mosher became Ranking Member of the

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after incumbent Ranking Member James G. Fulton passed away.https://www.newspapers.com/image/152683848/

Later career and death

In 1977, he was elected to the

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National Governing Board. He was the executive director of the House Science and Technology Committee in

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, September 1977 – 1979. He was a fellow of the

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at the

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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.

Bibliography

*Mosher, Charles Adams. ''Reinterpreting Congress and Its Works; A Speculative Theory Essayed: The Reflections, Confessions and Credo of Charles Adams Mosher.'' Oberlin, OH: C. A. Mosher, 1984.

Sources

The Political Graveyard

References

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