MOSHER, Charles Adams

MOSHER, Charles Adams
Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
1906–1984

Concise Biography

MOSHER, Charles Adams, a Representative from Ohio; born in Sandwich, DeKalb County, Ill., May 7, 1906; graduated from Sandwich High School, and Oberlin College in 1928; employed on daily newspapers in Aurora, Ill., and Janesville, Wis., 1929-1940; president and manager of the Oberlin Printing Company and editor-publisher of the Oberlin News-Tribune, 1940-1961; vice chairman of Oberlin City Council, 1945-1951; member of the Ohio senate, 1951-1960; member of Ohio Legislative Service Commission, 1947-1959; vice chairman of Ohio School Survey Commission, 1954-1955; delegate to the White House Conference on Education, 1955; director, Oberlin Improvement and Development Corporation; member of Presidential Commission on Marine Science, Engineering and Resources, 1967-1969; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh and to the seven succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1961-January 3, 1977); was not a candidate for reelection in 1976 to the Ninety-fifth Congress; executive director of the House Science and Technology Committee, Washington, D.C., September 1977-1979; fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian Institution, 1980; M.A., Oberlin College, 1982; was a resident of Oberlin, Ohio, until his death November 16, 1984; interment in Westwood Cemetery, Oberlin, Ohio.

View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

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External Research Collections

Kent State University Library

Kent, OH
Papers: 1960-1984. ca. 250 feet. Correspondence, notes, reports, and other public papers. Restricted.

Oberlin College Archives

Oberlin, OH
Papers: 1836-1982. Less than 1 foot. Correspondence, memorabilia, and other papers relating to his association with the college. Finding aid in repository.

Western Reserve Historical Society

Cleveland, OH
Papers: In Cyrus Eaton papers, 1901-1978. ca. 422 feet. Finding aid in repository.
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Bibliography / Further Reading

Flinn, Thomas A. "The Case of the Quiescent Campaign: The Thirteenth District of Ohio." In The Making of Congressmen: Seven Campaigns of 1974, edited by Alan L. Clem, pp. 107-25. North Scuituate, MA: Duxbury Press, 1976.

Mosher, Charles Adams. "Needs and Trends in Congressional Decison-making." Science 178 (13 October 1972): 134-38.

___. Promise and Hope: The Ashbrook Presidential Campaign of 1972. Washington: Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, 1985.

___. Reinterpreting Congress and Its Works; A Speculative Theory Essayed: The Reflections, Confessions and Credo of Charles Adams Mosher. Oberlin, OH: C. A. Mosher, 1984.

Ralph Nader Congress Project. Citizens Look at Congress: Charles A. Mosher, Republican Representative from Ohio. Washington, D. C.: Grossman Publishers, 1972.

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