Robert J. McIntosh

Robert John McIntosh ( born September 16, 1922 in Port Huron, Michigan, † March 22, 2008 in Fort Gratiot, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1957 and 1959 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert McIntosh attended until 1940, the Port Huron High School. Then he enrolled at Michigan State University in East Lansing. His further education was interrupted by the Second World War, in which he participated as a fighter pilot in the Air Corps of the U.S. Army. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1948 admitted to the bar in Port Huron McIntosh began to work in his new profession. From 1949 to 1951 he was deputy prosecutor in St. Clair County. Between 1953 and 1955 he served as postmaster in his hometown of Port Huron.

Politically, McIntosh member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1956 he was in the seventh constituency of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jesse P. Wolcott on January 3, 1957. Since he Democrat James G. O'Hara defeated in the following election in 1958, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1959.

In 1960 he ran again unsuccessfully against O'Hara for his return to the Congress. 1963 McIntosh was Chairman of the Public Service Commission of the State of Michigan. In the years 1964 and 1965 he served on the staff of Governor George W. Romney. In 1966, he headed the Ministry of Commerce of the State of Michigan. In the following years, Robert McIntosh withdrew from politics. He again worked as a lawyer and died 22 March 2008 in Fort Gratiot.

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