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Senate Years of Service: 1947-1959 Party: Republican
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BRICKER, John William, a Senator from Ohio; born on a farm near Mount Sterling, Madison County, Ohio,
September 6, 1893; attended the country schools; graduated from Ohio State University at
Columbus in 1916 and from its law department in 1920; admitted to the bar in 1917 and commenced
practice in Columbus, Ohio, in 1920; during the First World War served as first lieutenant and
chaplain in the United States Army in 1917 and 1918; solicitor for Grandview Heights, Ohio
1920-1928; assistant attorney general of Ohio 1923-1927; member of the Public Utilities
Commission of Ohio 1929-1932; attorney general of Ohio 1933-1937; Governor of Ohio
1939-1945; unsuccessful Republican candidate for Vice President in 1944; elected as a Republican
to the United States Senate in 1946, reelected in 1952 and served from January 3, 1947, to January 3,
1959; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1958; chairman, Committee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce (Eighty-third Congress); resumed the practice of law; died in Columbus, Ohio, March 22,
1986; interment in Greenlawn Cemetery.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Tananbaum, Duane A. The Bricker Amendment Controversy: A Test of Eisenhowers
Political Leadership. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988; Davies, Richard O. Defender of the Old Guard: John Bricker and American Politics. Columbus: Ohio State
University Press, 1993.
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