William R. Roy

William Robert Roy ( born February 23, 1926 in Bloomington, Illinois ) is a former American politician. Between 1971 and 1975 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Roy attended the public schools in Lexington (Illinois ). Then he studied until 1946 at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington. This was followed up in 1950 to study medicine at Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago. 20 years later, he studied at the Washburne University Law School and Jura, but without working as a lawyer. Between 1953 and 1955 he served in the U.S. Air Force, in which he brought it up to the Captain. From 1955 to 1970 Roy practiced as a doctor in Topeka.

Roy was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1970 he was appointed as their candidate in the second district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on January 3, 1971, to succeed the Republican Chester L. Mize. After a re-election in 1972 he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1975 two legislative sessions.

In 1974 he ran unsuccessfully against Bob Dole for a seat in the U.S. Senate. Another candidacy for the Senate failed four years later. In the following years until 1989, William Roy practiced again as a doctor in Topeka. Since 1989, he regularly writes political articles in the " Topeka Capital Journal". He represents relatively liberal views and was an opponent of the policies of President George W. Bush. Roy now lives at an old age in Topeka.