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John Jacob Rhodes was born on 18 September, 1916 in Council Grove, Kansas, U.S., is an American politician (1916–2003). Discover John Jacob Rhodes's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

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Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 18 September 1916
Birthday 18 September
Birthplace Council Grove, Kansas, U.S.
Date of death 24 August, 2003
Died Place Mesa, Arizona, U.S.
Nationality United States

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1916

John Jacob Rhodes Jr. (September 18, 1916 – August 24, 2003) was an American lawyer and politician.

A member of the Republican Party, Rhodes served as a U.S. Representative from Arizona for thirty years.

1938

He attended public schools and in 1938 graduated from Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, where he was a member of Beta Theta Pi fraternity and also earned his U.S. Army Reserve commission via the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC).

1941

In 1941, he graduated from Harvard Law School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and was called to active duty with the United States Army Air Corps, later redesignated the United States Army Air Forces.

He served at Williams Field, Arizona, from 1941 to 1946.

After the war, he chose to settle in Arizona with his wife, Elizabeth.

1947

From 1947 to 1952, he was the staff judge advocate of the Arizona Air National Guard, and from 1951 to 1952, he served as vice chairman of the Arizona Board of Public Welfare.

1950

In 1950, Rhodes ran for Attorney General of Arizona as a Republican.

His friend, Barry Goldwater, correctly predicted that Rhodes would lose; at that time, Arizona was over seventy-five percent Democratic.

1952

In 1952, Rhodes ran again, this time for Arizona's 1st congressional district, which then had all of Phoenix and surrounding Maricopa County.

Despite limited campaign funds and facing the powerful eleven-term Democratic incumbent, John Murdock, Rhodes prevailed by eight percent of the vote and was elected to the Eighty-third United States Congress.

He was the first Republican ever elected to represent Arizona in the House.

1953

Rhodes remained in office for thirty consecutive years (January 3, 1953–January 3, 1983), serving in the 83rd to 97th Congresses.

His committee assignments included the following: Education and Labor (1953 – 1959); Interior and Insular Affairs (1953 – 1959); Appropriations, on which he became ranking minority member of the Public Works and Defense Subcommittees (1959 – 1973); Budget (1974 – 1975); Rules (1981 – 1983); and was chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee (1965 – 1973).

1954

He fended off a close contest for reelection in 1954 but was not seriously challenged again until 1974, when anger at Watergate held him to only 51 percent of the vote.

1957

(The President announced his resignation the next day.) Rhodes voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960, as well as the 24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

1964

Additionally, he was a member of the Arizona delegation to several Republican National Conventions, Barry Goldwater's personal representative on the Platform Committee in 1964, chairman of the Platform Committee in 1972, and Permanent Chairman of the Convention in 1976 and 1980.

Rhodes voted against the initial House resolution for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on February 10, 1964, but voted in favor of the Senate amendment to the bill on July 2, 1964.

1966

His district became even safer after a mid-decade redistricting in 1966 cut it back to the fast-growing and strongly-conservative East Valley, including his home in Mesa.

1967

Rhodes voted in favor of the House resolution for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 on August 16, 1967, but voted against the Senate amendment to the bill on April 10, 1968.

Rhodes himself had maintained his support for the president until the release of the "smoking gun" tape.

Saying that "coverup of criminal activity and misuse of federal agencies cannot be condoned or tolerated," Rhodes said that he would vote to impeach Nixon when the articles came up for vote in the full House.

In short order, all ten Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee announced they would follow suit and vote for impeachment on the full House floor.

According to his obituary in The Washington Post, the decision of the House leader of Nixon's own party to break with Nixon and support impeachment was the "coup de grace" for Nixon.

1973

He was the minority leader in the House of Representatives from 1973 to 1981 and pressed a conservative agenda.

Rhodes was born in Council Grove, Kansas.

He met Calvin Coolidge when Rhodes was eleven years old and, after shaking hands with the president, reportedly refused to wash his hand for a week.

Rhodes was elected by acclamation to be House Minority Leader on December 7, 1973, succeeding Gerald Ford when Ford became Vice President.

1974

Rhodes' biggest two accomplishments in Congress were being the driving force behind congressional authorization of the Central Arizona Project, which provides water from the Colorado River to Arizona, and his presence at the August 7, 1974 meeting with President Richard Nixon at which he, Goldwater, and Senator Hugh Scott informed Nixon that the President no longer had enough support in Congress to prevent his impeachment and removal from office.

1976

In 1976, Rhodes wrote a book, The Futile System: How to Unchain Congress and Make the System Work Again, which argued that effective Congressional reforms "cannot be accomplished by the majority party.... The ins have little incentive to change. It is the outs -- the powerless minority -- who have the only real motivation to take a critical look at the system and determine a better way to run things."

Rhodes retired from Congress at 66.

Though still popular in his home district, Rhodes reasoned that "if [he were] ever going to do something else, [he] should get started doing it."

1979

However, House Republicans became unhappy with his strong but low-key leadership, and in 1979, he announced he would not seek re-election as leader.

1981

Minority Whip Bob Michel replaced him in 1981, but Rhodes remained in the House for that Congress, which he later termed a mistake.

Over the years, Rhodes became very popular in his district even though many of its residents had never been represented by a Republican before.

1982

His retirement opened the door to a hotly-contested Republican primary, which was won by John McCain in 1982.

McCain went on to victory in November and would be elected to the Senate four years later.

After leaving Congress, Rhodes maintained an apartment in Bethesda, Maryland, to which he commuted from his home in Mesa.

He practiced law in the Washington office of the Richmond, Virginia-based firm of Hunton & Williams.

He also traveled extensively, worldwide; was a board member of the Taft Institute for Government and the Hoover Institution for War, Revolution, and Peace; and served on the board of and was elected president of the United States Association of Former Members of Congress.