Charles Adams Mosher
U.S. Congressperson
1906 – 1984
Who was Charles Adams Mosher?
Charles Adams Mosher was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio.
Charles Adams Mosher was born in Sandwich, Illinois. He graduated from Sandwich High School, and Oberlin College in 1928. He was employed on daily newspapers in Aurora, Illinois, and Janesville, Wisconsin, from 1929 to 1940. He was president and manager of the Oberlin Printing Company and editor-publisher of the Oberlin News-Tribune, 1940-1961. He was vice chairman of Oberlin City Council, 1945-1951. He was a member of the Ohio State Senate from 1951 to 1960, a member of Ohio Legislative Service Commission from 1947 to 1959, and vice chairman of the Ohio School Survey Commission from 1954 to 1955. He was a delegate to the White House Conference on Education in 1955, director of the Oberlin Improvement and Development Corporation and a member of Presidential Commission on Marine Science, Engineering and Resources, 1967-1969. In 1961 he was listed as being on the Committee on Science and Astronautics. Chaired by Overton Brooks, and therefore a contributor to what has now become popularly known as the 'Brookings Report'. The report dealt with the long term implications for American Society of Space exploration.
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- Born
- May 7, 1906
United States of America - Education
- Oberlin College
- Sandwich High School
- Died
- Nov 16, 1984
Oberlin
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on July 23, 2013
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