MINSHALL, WILLIAM EDWIN, JR., a Representative from Ohio; born in East Cleveland, Cuyahoga County,
Ohio, October 24, 1911; attended the public schools of East Cleveland, the
University School, Shaker Heights, Ohio, and the University of Virginia at
Charlottesville; was graduated from the Cleveland Law School in 1940; was
admitted to the bar the same year and commenced the practice of law in
Cleveland, Ohio; member of the State house of representatives in 1939 and 1940;
enlisted in December 1940 as a private in the United States Army and served in
the European Theater, G-2 section, Headquarters III Corps, and was discharged
as a lieutenant colonel in March 1946; awarded Bronze Star; special assistant
attorney general of Ohio, 1948-1952; general counsel, Maritime Administration,
Washington, D.C., in 1953 and 1954; elected as a Republican to the
Eighty-fourth Congress and to the nine succeeding Congresses and served from
January 3, 1955, until his resignation December 31, 1974; was not a candidate
for reelection in 1974 to the Ninety-fourth Congress; was a resident of Delray
Beach, Fla., until his death on October 15, 1990; interment in Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
