William B. Widnall

William Beck Widnall ( born March 17, 1906 in Hackensack, New Jersey; † 28 December 1983 in Ridgewood, New Jersey ) was an American politician. Between 1950 and 1974 he represented the State of New Jersey in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Widnall attended the common schools and then studied until 1926 at Brown University in Providence (Rhode Iceland ). After a subsequent law studies at the New Jersey Law School and was admitted as an attorney of his 1932 he began in Hackensack to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1946 and 1950 he was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly.

Following the resignation of Mr J. Parnell Thomas Widnall was at the due election for the seventh seat from New Jersey as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 6 February 1950. After twelve elections he could remain until his resignation on 31 December 1974 at the Congress. In August 1968, Widnall was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach, on the Richard Nixon was nominated as a presidential candidate. During his time in Congress, the Cold War, the Korean War, the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal fell. 1974 was subject Widnall the Democrats Andrew Maguire. He resigned on December 31, 1974, four days before the official end of the legislature, of his mandate back.

From 1975 to 1981 William Widnall served as Chairman of the National Commission for electronic payments. He died on December 28, 1983 in Ridgewood.