Charles A. Mosher

A Representative from Ohio. Born in Sandwich, DeKalb County, Ill. , May 7, 1906. Graduated from Sandwich High School, and Oberlin College in 1928. Employed on daily newspapers in Aurora, Ill. , and Janesville, Wis. , 1929-1940. President and manager of the Oberlin Printing Company and editor-publisher of the Oberlin News-Tribune, 1940-1961. Vice chairman of Oberlin City Council, 1945-1951. Member of the Ohio senate, 1951-1960. Member of Ohio Legislative Service Commission, 1947-1959. Vice chairman of Ohio School Survey Commission, 1954-1955. Delegate to the White House Conference on Education, 1955. Director, Oberlin Improvement and Development Corporation. Member of Presidential Commission on Marine Science, Engineering and Resources, 1967-1969. Elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1977). Was not a candidate for reelection in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress. Executive director of the House Science and Technology Committee, Washington, D. C. , September 1977-1979. Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, 1980. M. A. , Oberlin College, 1982. Was a resident of Oberlin, Ohio, until his death November 16, 1984. Interment in Westwood Cemetery, Oberlin, Ohio.