J. Edward Roush

John Edward Roush ( born September 12, 1920 in Barnsdall, Osage County, Oklahoma, † March 26, 2004 in Huntington, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1959 and 1977 he represented two times the state of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Roush attended Huntington High School in Indiana and thereafter until 1942, the Huntington College until 1938. During the Second World War, he served 1942-1946 in the U.S. Army. After a subsequent law degree from Indiana University in Bloomington and its made ​​in 1949 admitted to the bar he began to work in this profession. Between 1950 and 1952 he served again in the Army. Politically, Roush was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1949 and 1950 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Indiana. From 1954 to 1958 he was a prosecutor in Huntington County. He also served 1958-1960 and 1981-1987 as curator of the Huntington College.

In the congressional elections of 1958, Roush was in the fifth electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John V. Beamer on January 3, 1959. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1969 five legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. In 1968, he was not confirmed. Two years later, Roush was then elected to the Congress in the fourth district of his state, where he E. Ross Adair replaced on January 3, 1971. After two re- elections, he could spend up to January 3, 1977 three more terms of office in the U.S. House of Representatives. In this time, the end of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal fell. In 1976, Roush was subject to later Republican U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle.

Between 1977 and 1979, Roush was a director of the Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency. In 1989 he was acting director of the Huntington College. Edward Roush died on 26 March 2004 in Huntington.