Jerry Voorhis
Jerry Voorhis served five terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1937 to 1947. He was the first political opponent of Richard M. Nixon. In 1928, he founded the Voor his School for Boys and became its headmaster. He died in a California retirement home in 1984 at the age of 83.
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Jerry Voorhis was a Democratic politician from California. He served five terms in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1937 to 1947. He was the first political opponent of Richard M. Nixon. In 1928, he founded the Voor his School for Boys and became its headmaster. He died in a California retirement home in 1984 at the age of 83. He is survived by his wife, Alice Louise Livingston, and his son, Jerry Jr., who is a well-known author. His grandson, Aurelius Lyman Voor His, was a self-taught lawyer and merchant in western Kansas. He went on to become an executive of the Oakland Motor Car Company, which became the Pontiac division of General Motors, and finally of the Nash Motor Company before his 1925 retirement. He also served as a traveling representative for the YMCA in Germany, though his stay was cut short by illness. In 1927, he ran an orphanage for boys in Laramie, Wyoming, where he ran his now-retired school for boys for three years. He retired from politics and worked for almost twenty years as an executive in the cooperative movement. He later wrote several books about his experiences in politics and in the social Gospel movement. His son is the author of the book, “Voorhis: A Biography of a Man, a Boy, a School, and a Man-in-the-World” (1998). He is also the co-author of “The American Dream: A Memoir of A Man, A School, A Boy, and A School-in the World” (2000).
He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, was president of the Christian Association, and was greatly influenced by the Social Gospel movement, and later wrote a book about his time at Yale. His father was a semi-professional baseball player and executive at the Kingman Plow Company. He had a son, Charles, who became an executive at Nash Motor Co. and later at the Ford plant in Charlotte, North Carolina. His wife was a social worker, working on a social welfare ranch in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where they later had a daughter, AliceLouise Livingston, who later became a teacher at a school for girls in Wyoming. He never married and died in California in 1984. He left behind a wife and three children. He lived in Los Angeles, California, until his death in 1984, when he was 83 years old, and died at his home in L.A. County. His great-great-grandson, Charles Lyman, is a lawyer and former mayor of Ottawa, Kansas, and served as mayor of the city of Ottawa for more than 20 years. His daughter is a former mayor, as well as the current mayor of Cheyenne, Wyoming. The family moved frequently in his childhood, but the family moved several times in his early adulthood. He attended Yale University and later went to work as a receiving clerk and a freight handler.
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