Edward H. Jenison
U.S. Congressperson
1907 – 1996
Who was Edward H. Jenison?
Edward Halsey Jenison was a U.S. Representative for three terms, Illinois State Representative for one term, and newspaper publisher of the Daily Beacon-News of Paris, Illinois for 65 years.
Born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Jenison attended the public schools and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He engaged in newspaper work, from 1925 to 1937, and as a publisher, since 1938, of the Paris, Illinois Daily Beacon-News. He served as lieutenant commander in the United States Navy, attached to the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air, with service in the Pacific and Atlantic Forces, from April 1943 to September 1946.
Jenison was elected as a Republican to the Eightieth, Eighty-first, and Eighty-second Congresses. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1952 to the Eighty-third Congress, in 1954 to the Eighty-fourth Congress, and in 1962 to the Eighty-eighth Congress. He resumed the publishing business, and was named "master editor" by the Southern Illinois Editorial Association in 1986. He served as delegate to the 1956 Republican National Convention and 1968 Republican National Convention.
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