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Campaign button, ca. 1975, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
STOKES, Louis, a Representative from Ohio; born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County,
Ohio, February 23, 1925; educated at Cleveland College of Western Reserve
University, 1946-1948; J.D., Cleveland Marshall Law School, 1953; served in the
United States Army, 1943-1946; admitted to the bar in 1953 and commenced
practice in Cleveland, Ohio; lecturer and writer for universities and bar
associations; elected as a Democrat to the Ninety-first and to the fourteen
succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1969-January 3, 1999); chair, Select
Committee on Assassinations (Ninety-fifth Congress); chair, Committee on
Standards of Official Conduct (Ninety-seventh, Ninety-eighth and One Hundred
Second Congresses); chair, Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (One
Hundredth Congress); was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred
Sixth Congress in 1998; is a resident of Silver Spring, Md.
BibliographyFenno, Richard F. Going Home: Black Representatives and
Their Constituents. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003; Louis
Stokes in
Black Americans in
Congress, 1870-2007. Prepared under the direction of the
Committee on House Administration by the Office of History & Preservation,
U. S. House of Representatives. Washington: Government Printing Office,
2008.
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