Tom Kindness

Norman Thomas "Tom" Kindness ( born August 26, 1929 in Knoxville, Tennessee; † January 8, 2004 in Exeter, England ) was an American politician. Between 1975 and 1987 he represented the state of Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Tom Kindness visited until 1947, the Glendale High School in California and then studied until 1951 at the University of Maryland at College Park. After a subsequent law degree from George Washington University and his 1953 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. Between 1957 and 1973 he was a consultant ( Assistant Counsel ) for the local paper mill in Hamilton Champion International Corp.. active. Between 1964 and 1967 he served as mayor of Hamilton. There he sat until 1969, in the City Council. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. Between 1971 and 1974 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Ohio. He also participated in several local party days of the Republicans in Ohio as a delegate.

In the congressional elections of 1974 Kindness was in the eighth electoral district of Ohio in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Walter E. Powell on January 3, 1975. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1987 six legislative periods. In 1986 he was one of the deputies, who were entrusted with the implementation of an impeachment against the federal judge Harry E. Claiborne. In the same year he gave up another candidacy. Instead, he sought unsuccessfully to his party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate. In 1990, he ran again in the congress of his party primaries, but lost to John Boehner. He died on 8 January 2004 in the English Exeter.