Andrew J. Hinshaw

Andrew Jackson Hinshaw (* August 4, 1923 in Dexter, Stoddard County, Missouri ) is a former American politician. Between 1973 and 1977 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Andrew Hinshaw attended the public schools in Michigan and Los Angeles. During the Second World War he served between 1942 and 1945 in the U.S. Navy. Then he studied until 1950 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. There he also studied law. Between 1965 and 1972 he was employed as an assessor in the management of Orange County. He held this position for several years in Los Angeles County. He was also a period of ten years at the Tax Commission (California State Board of Equalization ). Politically, Hinshaw joined the Republican Party. In 1972 he was a delegate to the regional convention in California.

In the congressional elections of 1972 Hinshaw was in the then newly established 39th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 1973. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1977 two legislative sessions. Since 1975 he represented there as a successor to Bob Wilson 's 40th district of his state. In his time as a congressman fell among other things, the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal.

In 1976, Hinshaw was not nominated by his party for re-election. Around this time allegations of corruption against him were loud, which came from his time as an assessor in Orange County. In 1977, he was so charged and convicted. He spent a year in prison. Between 1980 and 1983 he headed a company that created business analysis, and in the years 1984 and 1985 he was a director of the World Computer Graphics Association. Then he stood in front of a company that created graphics. End of his life he spent in Mission Viejo.