Charles Adams Mosher (May 7, 1906 – November 16, 1984) was an American newspaperman and politician who served eight terms as a
Republican
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member of the
United States House of Representatives
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from
Ohio
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from 1961 to 1977.
Early life and career
Charles Adams Mosher was born in
Sandwich, Illinois
Sandwich is a city in DeKalb and Kendall counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. Its population was 7,421 at the 2010 census and 7,221 at the 2020 census.
History
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. He graduated from Sandwich High School, and
Oberlin College
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in 1928. He was employed on daily newspapers in
Aurora, Illinois
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, and
Janesville, Wisconsin
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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 The Oberlin News-Tribune is a weekly newspaper in Oberlin, Ohio
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'', 1940-1961. He was vice chairman of Oberlin City Council, 1945-1951.
He was a member of the
Ohio State Senate
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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
Overton Brooks
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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
1976
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to the
Ninety-fifth Congress.
Later career and death
In 1977, he was elected to the
Common Cause
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National Governing Board. He was the executive director of the
House Science and Technology Committee
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in
Washington, D.C.
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, September 1977 – 1979. He was a fellow of the
Woodrow Wilson Center
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at the
Smithsonian Institution
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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*
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1906 births
1984 deaths
20th-century American politicians
20th-century American newspaper editors
Editors of Ohio newspapers
Oberlin College alumni
Ohio city council members
Republican Party Ohio state senators
People from Oberlin, Ohio
People from Sandwich, Illinois
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio