Preceded by William M. McCulloch Party Republican Party Political party Republican Succeeded by Walter E. Powell | Name Jackson Betts Resigned January 3, 1973 Role U.S. representative | |
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Preceded by Frederick Cleveland Smith Born May 26, 1904
Findlay, Ohio ( 1904-05-26 ) Alma mater Kenyon College
Yale Law School Died August 13, 1993, Findlay, Ohio, United States Education Yale Law School, Kenyon College | ||
Jackson Edward Betts (May 26, 1904 – August 13, 1993) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio.
Jackson Edward Betts was born in Findlay, Ohio. He graduated from Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio, in 1926, and from Yale Law School in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1929. He was admitted to the bar in 1930, and commenced the practice of law in Findlay, Ohio. He served as prosecuting attorney of Hancock County, Ohio, from 1933 to 1937. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1937 to 1947, serving as speaker in 1945 and 1946.
Betts was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-second and to the ten succeeding Congresses. He was not a candidate in 1972 for reelection to the Ninety-third Congress. He was a part-time teacher at Findlay College from 1973 to 1983 and acting judge of Findlay Municipal Court from 1981 to 1989. He was a resident of Findlay, Ohio, until his death there on August 13, 1993.