Paul H. Todd, Jr.

Paul Harold Todd, Jr. ( born September 22, 1921 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, † November 18, 2008 ) was an American politician. Between 1965 and 1967 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Paul Todd came from a well known political family in Michigan. His father Paul Todd Sr. was mayor of Kalamazoo; his grandfather, Albert M. Todd (1850-1931) representing 1897-1899 also the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives. He attended until 1937, the Beverly Hills High School in California and then studied until 1942 at Cornell University in Ithaca (New York). During the Second World War, Todd served between 1942 and 1945 in the news service of the U.S. Army.

In 1958 Paul founded the company Kalamazoo Spice Extraction Todd Co. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1962 he ran unsuccessfully against even the Republican incumbent August E. Johansen for the U.S. House of Representatives. In the congressional elections of 1964, he was then in the third electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Johansen on January 3, 1965. Since he lost to Garry E. Brown in the elections of 1966, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1967. This was determined by the events of the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement.

From 1967 to 1970, Paul Todd CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation; 1972-1976 he was a member of the ethics committee of the state government of Michigan. Meanwhile, Todd dedicated his private business. In 1994 he applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress. He died November 18, 2008 in his hometown Kalamazoo.

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