John M. Ashbrook

A Representative from Ohio. Born in Johnstown, Licking County, Ohio, September 21, 1928. Graduated from Johnstown High School in 1946. Served in the United States Navy, 1946-1948. Member of Byrd Antarctic Expedition, 1946-1947. Harvard University, A. B. , 1952, and Ohio State University Law School at Columbus, J. D. , 1955. Was admitted to the bar in 1955 and commenced the practice of law in Johnstown, Ohio. Publisher of the Johnstown Independent, a weekly newspaper. Served in the State house of representatives, 1957-1961. National chairman of Young Republican Clubs, 1957-1959. Delegate, Republican National Conventions, 1964 and 1968. Elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh and to the ten succeeding Congresses, and served from January 3, 1961, until his death on April 24, 1982, in Johnstown, Ohio. Cremated. Ashes interred at Green Hill Cemetery.