James H. Scheuer

A Representative from New York. Born in New York, New York, February 6, 1920. Graduated from the Fieldston School, Riverdale, N. Y. , 1938. A. B. , Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa. , 1942. L. L. B. , Columbia University Law School, New York, N. Y. , 1948. I. A. , Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, Cambridge, Mass. , 1945. Lawyer, private practice. United States Army, 1943-1945. Staff, Foreign Economic Administration, 1945-1946. Staff, Office of Price Stabilization, 1951-1957. Writer. Lecturer. Unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination to the Eighty-eighth Congress in 1962. Elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth and to the three succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1965-January 3, 1973). Unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the Ninety-third Congress in 1972. Served as president, National Alliance for Safer Cities, 1972-1973. President, National Housing Conference, 1972-1974. Elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-fourth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1975-January 3, 1993). Was not a candidate for renomination to the One Hundred Third Congress in 1992. Chair, Select Committee on Population (Ninety-fifth Congress). United States Director, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1994-1996. Died on August 30, 2005, in Washington, D. C.