Gale Schisler

Darwin Gale Schisler ( born March 2, 1933 Knox County, Illinois ) is a former American politician. Between 1965 and 1967 he represented the state of Illinois in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Gale Schisler attended the public schools of his home and thereafter until 1951, the Abingdon High School. Between 1952 and 1955 he served in the United States Air Force. Subsequently, he studied until 1959 at Western Illinois University. Between 1959 and 1964 he worked as a teacher and coach at the London Mills Junior High School. In the meantime, he graduated in 1962, the Northeast Missouri State Teachers College in Kirksville. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1964, Schisler in the 19th electoral district of Illinois was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Republican Robert T. Mcloskey on January 3, 1965. Since he has not been confirmed in 1966, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1967. This was marked by the events of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement.

Between 1967 and 1969 led Gale Schisler the State Authority Illinois Office of Intergovernmental Cooperation; 1968 to 1980 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Illinois. End of his life he spent in London Mills.