John Brademas

A Representative from Indiana. Born in Mishawaka, Saint Joseph County, Ind. , March 2, 1927. Graduated from Central High School, South Bend, Ind. Graduated from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. , 1949. Oxford University, Oxford, England, 1954. United States Navy, 1945-1946. Staff for United States Senator Pat McNamara of Michigan, 1955. Staff for United States Representative Thomas L. Ashley of Ohio, 1955. Executive assistant to Adlai E. Stevenson in 1955 and 1956. Assistant professor, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame, Ind. , 1957- 1958. Member of congressional delegation to First Inter-American Conference, Lima, Peru, 1959. Unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election to the Eighty-fourth Congress in 1954 and to the Eighty-fifth Congress in 1956. Elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-sixth and to the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1981). Majority whip (Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixth Congresses). Unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Ninety-seventh Congress in 1980. President, New York University, New York, N. Y. , 1981-1992. Died on July 11, 2016, in New York City, N. Y. Interment at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D. C.