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Preceded by
  
John M. Vorys

Role
  
Politician

Preceded by
  
Party
  

Political party
  
Republican

Succeeded by
  
Name
  
Samuel Devine

Resigned
  
January 3, 1981

Samuel L. Devine

Born
  
December 21, 1915South Bend, Indiana (
1915-12-21
)

Alma mater
  
Colgate UniversityOhio State UniversityNotre Dame Law School

Died
  
June 27, 1997, Upper Arlington, Ohio, United States

Samuel Leeper Devine (21 December 1915 – 27 June 1997) was an American politician of the Republican party who served in the United States House of Representatives as Representative of the 12th congressional district of Ohio from 3 January 1959 until 3 January 1981; he left office after being defeated by Democrat Bob Shamansky (who would lose the seat after a single (two-year) term to Republican John Kasich). During the 96th Congress, he was the Chairman of the House Republican Conference.

Samuel L. Devine FileSamuel L Devine 87th Congress 1961jpg Wikimedia Commons

Biography

Devine was born in South Bend, Indiana, on 21 December 1915. His family moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1920. He attended public schools in the Columbus area. Devine attended Colgate University in 1933 and 1934; and then the Ohio State University from 1934 to 1937. After being graduated from the Ohio State University, Devine went to law school at the University of Notre Dame, and received an LL.B. and J.D. in 1940. He was admitted to the bar in 1940 and began private legal practice in Columbus, but in 1940 was appointed a special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He resigned from the Bureau in October 1945 and resumed private practice in Columbus.

Devine embarked on a political career in 1950, and was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives, in which he served from 1951 to 1955. Thereïn, Devine was chairman of the Ohio Un-American Activities Committee, a joint committee of the Ohio House and the Senate, and modelled on the federal House Un-American Activities Committee. This committee was given extensive powers of interrogation. It declared in 1952 that approximately 1,300 Ohioans were members of the Communist Party. At Devine's urging, the state legislature overrode a gubernatorial veto of a bill to impose prison terms and fines on Communists.

Devine served as Prosecuting Attorney for Franklin County, Ohio, from 1955 until 1958, when he was elected to the United States Congress.

Devine was also a college football official for 27 years.

References

Samuel L. Devine Wikipedia


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