John Y. McCollister

John Yetter McCollister ( born June 10, 1921 in Iowa City, Iowa; † November 1, 2013 in Omaha, Nebraska ) was an American politician. Between 1971 and 1977 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John McCollister visited until 1939, the Washington High School in Sioux Falls ( South Dakota), and then studied until 1943 at the University of Iowa. From 1943 to 1946 he was a member of the U.S. Navy Reserve. Between 1960 and 1971, and again from 1979 to 1986 he was President of McCollister & Co. in Omaha.

McCollister was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1965 and 1970 he served as County Commissioner in Douglas County. In the 1960s, he was a delegate at all party conferences of the Republicans in Nebraska; In 1968, he participated as a delegate to the Republican National Convention, was nominated for the Richard Nixon Presidential candidate of the party.

1970 McCollister was elected in the second district of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Glenn Clarence Cunningham on January 3, 1971. He was re-elected in each of the years 1972 and 1974, and practiced so that his mandate in Congress until January 3, 1977 from. In 1976, he opted not to run again for the House of Representatives; Instead, he ran, unsuccessfully, for a seat in the U.S. Senate. He was defeated with 47 percent against 53 percent of the vote Edward Zorinsky, the mayor of Omaha. After that McCollister drew largely withdrew from politics. In 2000 he was the Republican elector in the presidential elections.

Most recently, he lived in Omaha, where he died on November 1, 2013 at the age of 92 years.