Sneha Girap (Editor)

John Bertrand Conlan

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Preceded by
  
District created

Party
  
Republican Party

Role
  
Politician


Name
  
John Conlan

Political party
  
Republican

Succeeded by
  
Eldon Rudd

John Bertrand Conlan httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommonsthu

Born
  
September 17, 1930 (age 94) Oak Park, Illinois (
1930-09-17
)

Education
  
Harvard Law School, Northwestern University

John Bertrand Conlan (born September 17, 1930) is a retired U.S. lawyer and Republican politician. He served as a State Senator from 1965 to 1972 and as a United States Representative from Arizona from 1973 to 1977.

Contents

Early life and career

Born in Oak Park, Illinois, Conlan is the son of Hall of Fame baseball umpire Jocko Conlan. He attended Illinois public schools and received a B.S. from Northwestern University, where he joined Delta Upsilon. He later graduated from Harvard Law School, received a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the University of Cologne, and studied at The Hague Academy of International Law. Conlan was admitted to the Illinois bar in 1954 and commenced practice in Chicago. He then served as a captain in the U.S. Army from 1956 to 1961. Conlan has also taught geo-politics and American foreign policy at Arizona State University and the University of Maryland. He continued to practice law in Phoenix, Arizona. Conlon served in the Arizona Senate from 1967 to 1973.

U.S. House of Representatives

In Congress, he was known as a strong and articulate conservative. In 1976, he ran for the United States Senate to succeed retiring Republican Senator Paul Fannin. He was opposed in the Republican primary by fellow U.S. Representative Sam Steiger which Conlan narrowly lost. The general election was won by former Pima County Attorney Dennis DeConcini.

References

John Bertrand Conlan Wikipedia


Similar Topics