John R. Pillion

John Raymond Pillion ( born August 10, 1904 in Conneaut, Ohio; † December 31, 1978 in Eden, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1953 and 1965 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Pillion attended the public schools in Lackawanna, where he had already moved in 1907 with his family. Then he graduated from the South Park High School in Buffalo and the Cornell School of Engineering. After a subsequent law degree from Cornell University and his 1928 was admitted to the bar he began in Lackawanna to work in this profession. Between 1932 and 1936, he served there as a municipal judge. After that, he was 1936-1941 advisers and tax attorney of Lackawanna city. From 1945 to 1953 he served as president and chief financial officer of the company Bison Storage & Warehouse Corp. in Buffalo. Since 1935, he ran alongside his other activities, a fruit and vegetable farm in Niagara County. Politically, pillion joined the Republican Party. Between 1941 and 1950 he was a member of the New York State Assembly.

In the congressional elections of 1952, pillion on the 42nd electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William E. Miller on January 3, 1953. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1965 six legislative periods. Since 1963 he has represented the 39th district of his state. In his time as a congressman fell further events of the Cold War, the beginning of the civil rights movement and later the beginning of the Vietnam War.

1964 pillion was not re-elected. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced until 1968, again as a lawyer. This year, he sought unsuccessfully to make his return to the Congress. At that time he lived in Hamburg (New York). He died on 31 December 1978 in Eden, and was buried in Hamburg.