Floyd James Fithian was an American educator and politician who served as a United States Representative from Indiana as a Democrat.
14 Facts About Floyd Fithian
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Floyd Fithian was one of the forty nine Watergate Babies who won election to the House of Representatives in the wake of the Watergate scandal during the 1974 House elections with Fithian himself defeating Earl Landgrebe, who became infamous for his stalwart defense of President Richard Nixon.
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Floyd Fithian was one of the fourteen members of the House Select Committee on Assassinations and believed that the Kennedy assassination in 1963 was orchestrated by members of organized crime.
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Floyd James Fithian was born in Vesta, Nebraska on November 3,1928 and graduated from Vesta High School in 1947.
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Floyd Fithian enlisted into the United States Navy in the same year and rose to the rank of lieutenant by the time he left in 1955.
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Floyd Fithian taught briefly at Nebraska Wesleyan University and moved to Lafayette, Indiana in 1964 to become an associate professor of history at Purdue University.
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Floyd Fithian was selected to be one of the Democratic nominees for Tippecanoe County's three council seats by the county Democratic Central Committee, but came in fourth place.
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Floyd Fithian ran for Indiana's Second Congressional District during the 1972 elections and won the Democratic nomination.
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In 1982 Indiana lost a congressional district after the 1980 Census and Floyd Fithian's district was split into more conservative territory.
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Floyd Fithian criticized the reapportionment and brought up that according to the apportionment formula Indiana was entitled to 10.574 congressional districts and New Mexico was entitled to 2.505 congressional districts yet despite the Indianan figure being higher Indiana was losing a district and New Mexico was gaining a district.
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On July 13,1981 Floyd Fithian announced that he would retire from the House and would not seek reelection in either the 3rd, 5th, or 7th congressional districts or challenge Senator Richard Lugar and would instead run for Secretary of State.
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Floyd Fithian worked for Senator Lloyd Bentsen as the finance director when he was the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee from 1983 to 1985.
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In 1991 Oliver Stone's JFK, a political thriller based on the investigation into the Kennedy assassination by Jim Garrison, to critical acclaim although it was criticized for its historical inaccuracies and Floyd Fithian criticized the film for its manipulation of the past.
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On June 27,2003 Floyd Fithian died at his retirement home in Annandale, Virginia after suffering from Parkinson's disease and was interred in Arlington National Cemetery.