John Jarman

John Jarman ( born July 17, 1915 in Sallisaw, Sequoyah County, Oklahoma, † January 15, 1982 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma ) was an American politician. Between 1951 and 1977 he represented the fifth electoral district of the state of Oklahoma in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Jarman attended the public schools in Oklahoma City and 1932-1934, the Presbyterian College in Fulton (Missouri ). This was followed up in 1937 to study at Yale University. Jarman finished his studies with a law degree from the Law School of Harvard University in 1941. Thereafter, he began to work as a lawyer in Oklahoma City. After the attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent entry of the United States into the Second World War Jarman was a soldier in the U.S. Army. There he served in a reconnaissance unit. In 1945 he was present at the founding conference of the United Nations in San Francisco.

Politically, Jarman became a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1947 and 1948 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Oklahoma; 1949 to 1950 he was a member of the State Senate. In the congressional elections of 1950, Jarman was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he 1951 AS Mike Monroney replaced on January 3. After he was re-elected in each of the following twelve elections, he was able to complete a total of 13 legislative sessions in Congress until January 3, 1977. During his last term, he changed his party affiliation in 1975. In protest against the dismissal of three committee chairmen by the party leadership of the Democrats, he joined the Republican Party. He was also of the opinion that the Democratic Party is too liberal.

In 1976 he not applied for the nomination of his new party for re- election to the House of Representatives. Instead, he retired from politics. He worked until his death in 1982 as an attorney in Oklahoma City.