F. Jay Nimtz

F. Jay Nimtz ( born December 1, 1915 in South Bend, Indiana, † December 6, 1990 ) was an American politician. Between 1957 and 1959 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jay Nimtz attended the common schools and then studied until 1938 at Indiana University. After a subsequent law degree from the same university and its made ​​in 1940 admitted to the bar he began in South Bend to work in this profession. During the Second World War Nimtz served in the U.S. Army, where he rose to become lieutenant colonel. He was used in Europe. Later, he was a colonel in the Army Reserve. In 1958 Nimtz was vice chairman of the Lincoln Sesquicentennial Commission. He also was a member of the welfare committee in St. Joseph County.

Politically, Nimtz member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1956 he was in the third electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Shepard J. Crumpacker on January 3, 1957. Since he has not been confirmed in 1958, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1959. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. In 1960 he applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress.

Between 1979 and 1986 Jay Nimtz belonged to the Air Pollution Control of Indiana. From 1981 to 1986 he was also a member of the Environmental Committee of his state. Since 1974 until his death he was head of the Commission for further development of his home town of South Bend. He is also died on 6 December 1990.