Dick Nichols

Richard " Dick" Nichols ( born April 29, 1926 in Fort Scott, Bourbon County, Kansas ) is a retired American politician. Between 1991 and 1993 he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Dick Nichols attended the public schools of his home and then to the 1951 Kansas State University. In between, he was from 1944 to 1947 Ensign in the U.S. Navy. Later he became an adviser to the Committee on Agriculture of the State of Kansas and worked as a deputy head of department of agricultural editors at a radio and television station in Topeka. Nichols was also agricultural representatives (Agricultural Representative) a bank in Hutchinson. Since 1969 he has been CEO of Home State Bank in McPherson.

Nichols joined the Republican Party and was temporarily a member of the party executive in Kansas. Between 1986 and 1990 he was chairman of the party in the fifth congressional district of his state. In 1988 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in New Orleans, was nominated on the George Bush as a presidential candidate. In the congressional elections of 1990, Nichols was in the fifth district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Bob Whittaker on January 3, 1991. However, since the eighth constituency in 1992 was dissolved and Nichols defeated in the primaries Congress in the fourth district, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1993.

Today, Dick Nichols is still head of the Home State Bank in McPherson, where he also has his residence.