Marvin L. Esch

Marvin Leonel Esch (* August 4, 1927 in Flinton, Cambria County, Pennsylvania, † June 19, 2010 in Ann Arbor, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1967 and 1977 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Marvin Esch visited on the second chance various schools in Akron ( Ohio) and Jackson ( Michigan). During the Second World War, he initially served in the U.S. Navy and then to 1946 in the U.S. Army. By 1959, he studied various subjects at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Later he taught at Wayne State University in Detroit rhetoric and labor law.

Politically, Esch member of the Republican Party. In the years 1965 and 1966 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Michigan. In the congressional elections of 1966 he was in the second electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Weston E. Vivian on January 3, 1967. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1977 five legislative sessions. During this time, ended the Vietnam War. In 1974, the political America was rocked by the Watergate affair. 1971, the 26th Amendment was passed in Congress.

Esch was a member of the education and labor committee. In 1976 he opted not to run again for the U.S. House of Representatives. Instead, he applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the U.S. Senate: He defeated the Democrat Donald W. Riegle. Between 1977 and 1980 he served as director of public relations for the U.S. Steel Corporation. After that, he was from 1981 to 1987 Director of Continuing Education at the American Enterprise Institute. Marvin Esch died on June 19, 2010 in Ann Arbor. He was married to Olga Jurich, with whom he had three children.