Joe Skubitz (May 6, 1906 – September 11, 2000) was an American politician and

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from

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Early life

Skubitz was born in Frontenac,

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, Kansas; his parents were immigrants from

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. He attended grade school in Ringo, Kansas, and high schools in Girard and Frontenac, Kansas. After high school he attended Kansas Teachers College of Pittsburg (now

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), receiving a B.S. in 1929 and an M.S. in 1934. He attended law school at

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, in 1938, and graduated from the law school of

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, earning an LL.B. in 1944. He was

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in 1944 and commenced practice in Kansas and the District of Columbia. Skubitz served as administrative assistant to U.S. Senator Clyde M. Reed from 1939 to 1949, and to U.S. Senator Andrew F. Schoeppel from 1949 to 1962. He served as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1960. He was elected as a

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to the Eighty-eighth through the Ninety-fifth Congresses and served from January 3, 1963, until his resignation December 31, 1978. He did not seek renomination in 1978. Skubitz died in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, on September 11, 2000. He was interred at Old Mission Cemetery, Wichita, Kansas.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Skubitz, Joe 1906 births 2000 deaths People from Frontenac, Kansas Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kansas George Washington University Law School alumni Pittsburg State University alumni Washburn University alumni Kansas lawyers American people of Slovenian descent 20th-century American lawyers 20th-century American politicians