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John Carl Hinshaw (July 28, 1894 – August 5, 1956) was a
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from
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from 1939 to 1956.


Biography

He was born in
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, son of William Wade and Anna Williams Hinshaw. He attended the public schools and
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. He graduated from
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in 1916 and pursued a postgraduate course in business administration at the
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at Ann Arbor. He served overseas as a First Lieutenant in the Sixteenth Railroad Engineers from May 1917 to September 1919 during and immediately after
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. He was then discharged as a captain in the Corps of Engineers. He served as laborer, salesman, and manager in automotive manufacturing in Chicago from 1920-1926. He also engaged in investment banking in 1927 and 1928. Hinshaw moved to
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in 1929 and engaged in the real estate and insurance business. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress.


Congress

He was elected as a
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to the Seventy-sixth and to the eight succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1939 until his death in
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in 1956. He had been renominated in the June 1956 primary election. He was buried in
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, Washington, D.C. Hinshaw was a member of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, and the Congressional Air Policy Board (Vice-Chairman, 1947). He received the Air Force Association's Citation of Honor in 1948, and in 1953 Hinshaw received the National Aeronautic Association's
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"For his service as a Member of the House of Representatives in fostering the sound and consistent growth of aviation in all its forms, so that it might become a deterrent to war and that it might increasingly become an important carrier of the people and the commerce of the world.""National Aeronautic Association Awards, Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy, Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy Winners 1948 – 1959" (retrieved 13-Nov-2011).


See also

*
List of United States Congress members who died in office (1950–99) There are several lists of United States Congress members who died in office. These include: *List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899) *List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–1949) *List of ...


References


Sources

* "Carl Hinshaw, Late a Representative from California," Memorial Services, Eighty-Fifth Congress, First Session (United States Government Printing Office, Washington, 1957)


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hinshaw, John Carl 1894 births 1956 deaths Politicians from Chicago Valparaiso University alumni Princeton University alumni United States Army officers United States Army personnel of World War I Ross School of Business alumni Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from California 20th-century American politicians Military personnel from Illinois