Orval Hansen

A Representative from Idaho. Born in Firth, Bingham County, Idaho, August 3, 1926. Attended Idaho Falls public schools. United States Navy, 1944-1946, and served in Air Force Reserve until retirement as a lieutenant colonel. B. A. , University of Idaho, 1950. J. D. , George Washington University, 1954. Rotary Foundation Fellow, London School of Economics, University of London, 1954-1955. LL. M. , in 1973 and Ph. D. , George Washington University, 1986. Private law practice, 1956-1968. Elected to the Idaho house of representatives, 1956, reelected 1958 and 1960. House majority leader, 1961-1962. Unsuccessful Republican candidate for the Eighty-eighth Congress in 1962. Elected to Idaho house of representatives, 1964, and to Idaho State senate, 1966. Elected as a Republican to the Ninety-first and to the two succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1969-January 3, 1975). Unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress. Resumed the practice of law. Founder and president, Columbia Institute for Political Research, 1977-2002. Died on November 2, 2017, in Boise, Idaho.