A Representative from New York. Born in Cuero, De Witt County, Tex. , December 12, 1919. Attended the public schools of Baton Rouge, La. A. B. , Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, La. , 1941. LL. B. , Cornell University Law School, Ithaca, N. Y. , 1947. United States Army 1941-1945. Admitted to the New York bar, 1947. Lawyer, private practice. Active in civil defense and Boy Scout work. President of Rochester Community Baseball, Inc. , 1956-1962. Executive vice president of the International Baseball League, 1959-1961, and also attorney for the league. Member of the city council of Rochester, 1955-1961. Elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1993). Not a candidate for renomination to the One Hundred Third Congress in 1992. Died on August 30, 2004, in Winchester, Va. Interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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