Paul Findley

A Representative from Illinois. Born in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Ill. , June 23, 1921. Attended the public schools of Jacksonville, Ill. B. A. , Illinois College at Jacksonville, 1943. Served in the United States Navy in the Pacific as a lieutenant (jg. ) from 1943 to 1946. President of the Pike Press, Inc. , Pittsfield, Ill. Unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination for State senator in 1952. Member, United States delegation, North Atlantic Assembly, 1965-1970. Elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh and to the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1983). Was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1982. Appointed to the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development, 1983-1994. Died on August 9, 2019, in Jacksonville, Ill. Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.