John B. Hollister

Who was John B. Hollister?

John Baker Hollister was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Born in Cincinnati, Hollister attended the local schools and St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1911, and next studied at the University of Munich, Germany for a year. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1915. Hollister was admitted to the bar the same year and began his practice in Cincinnati, Ohio.

On August 15, 1917, he was appointed a first lieutenant in the United States Army and served in France during World War I as captain of Battery B, Forty-sixth Artillery Corps, later being in command of the Third Battalion of his regiment. Following the Armistice, he was on detached service with the American Relief Administration under Herbert Hoover in 1919.

After his discharge, Hollister resumed his law practice in Cincinnati. He served as director of various financial and manufacturing corporations, and was a member of the Cincinnati Board of Education from 1921 to 1929.

Hollister was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-second Congress in a special election held on November 3, 1931, to fill the vacancy created by the death of Nicholas Longworth.