John Paul Hammerschmidt was an American politician from the state of Arkansas.
28 Facts About John Paul Hammerschmidt
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John Paul Hammerschmidt served from 1967 until his retirement in 1993.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt was the first Republican elected to the House of Representatives from Arkansas since Reconstruction.
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Coincidentally, John Paul Hammerschmidt left the House the same month in which Clinton became president.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt graduated in 1938 from Harrison High School.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt attended The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina, from 1938 to 1939 and the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville from 1940 to 1941.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt received the Distinguished Flying Cross with three oak leaf clusters for his service in the war.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt then entered the lumber industry, working at the Hammerschmidt Lumber Company, which had been founded by his grandfather, and becoming its president.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt was president of the Construction Products Company and the Arkansas Lumber Dealers Association and Southwestern Lumberman's Association.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt continued his military service in the United States Air Force Reserves from 1945 to 1960, and later in the District of Columbia Army Reserves from 1977 to 1981.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1964,1968,1972,1976,1980,1984, and 1988.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt was twice the state chairman of the Republican Party of Arkansas, serving from 1964 to 1966 and again from 2002 to 2004.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt became the first Republican to represent Arkansas in Congress since Reconstruction.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt was elected twelve more times, having served twenty-six years from January 3,1967 to January 3,1993, from the 90th Congress to the 102nd Congress.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt became very popular in the 3rd district, even though most of its residents had never been represented by a Republican before; indeed, Democrats would hold most state and local offices well into the 1990s.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt only faced one contest anywhere near as close as his initial bid for the seat.
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Clinton had harshly criticized John Paul Hammerschmidt for being one of the few Republicans to stand by Richard Nixon in the wake of the Watergate scandal.
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The district reverted to form in 1976, when John Paul Hammerschmidt was reelected unopposed.
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In 1978, Hammerschmidt faced weak opposition from the Hot Springs real estate broker William C Mears and instead had the resources to help the Republican gubernatorial nominee, A Lynn Lowe, a farmer from Texarkana, win in Boone County.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt was a member of the President's Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism which was organized in September 1989 to review and report on aviation security policy in the light of the sabotage of Pan Am Flight 103 on December 21,1988.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt had a conservative voting record on foreign policy and social issues, but a slightly more moderate record on economic issues.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt supported a constitutional amendment proposing to enact flag desecration laws.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt was in the Air Force Reserve from 1945 to 1960 and the Army Reserve from 1977 to 1981.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt was a Presbyterian and a member of the American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Freemasons, Shriners, Elks, Rotary International, and had alumni status at the Alpha Zeta chapter of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt died at the age of 92 of heart and respiratory failure at a hospital in Springdale, Arkansas.
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The John Paul Hammerschmidt Federal Building near the Fayetteville Historic Square is home to the Fayetteville office of the United States District Court for the Western District of Arkansas.
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John Paul Hammerschmidt was inducted into the Arkansas Aviation Hall of Fame in 1990 by the Arkansas Aviation Historical Society.