1. John Henry Jarman II was a member of the US House of Representatives from Oklahoma for 26 years, from 1951 to 1977.
12 Facts About John Jarman
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John Jarman was admitted to the bar in 1941 and began his law practice in Oklahoma City.
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John Jarman enlisted in the US Army in January 1942, about a month after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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John Jarman served in the Security Intelligence Corps during World War II and was discharged from military service in December 1945.
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John Jarman was married Ruth Virginia Bewley and had three children: John Henry Jarman III, Susan Jarman, and Steve Jarman.
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John Jarman was later elected to the Oklahoma House of Representatives and later to the Oklahoma State Senate.
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John Jarman was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1950 as a Democrat.
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John Jarman did not sign the 1956 Southern Manifesto and voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1960, the 24th Amendment to the US Constitution, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 but not the Civil Rights Acts of 1957,1964, and 1968.
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John Jarman was reelected 11 times without serious difficulty, even as the Oklahoma City area trended increasingly Republican at the local level.
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For example, in 1974, John Jarman was nearly defeated by a Republican newcomer, Mickey Edwards, despite Republicans being severely punished that year for the Watergate scandal.
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On January 24,1975, Jarman switched parties and became a Republican in protest of the removals of F Edward Hebert, Wright Patman, and William R Poage from their committee chairmanships.
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John Jarman declined to seek re-election to the House in 1976.