Frank Lausche - Revision history

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 |resting_place=Calvary Cemetery in Cleveland
 |party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
-|spouse=Jane O. Sheal Lausche (1903–1981)
+|spouse=Jane O. Sheal Lausche<br>(1903–1981)
 '''Parents''':<br>
 Louis and Frances Milavec Lausche

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 Lausche served as Municipal Court judge from 1932 to 1937 and Common Pleas Court judge from 1937 to 1941, before winning election as mayor in 1941.<ref name=odenkirk/>
-Lausche served as mayor until 1944, when he first won election as governor, the first [[Roman Catholic]] in that position when term were for two years. He was narrowly defeated in 1946, a heavily Republican year by the Republican Thomas H. Herbert (1894–1974) but rebounded in 1948 by unseating Herbert. He served four consecutive terms from 1949 to 1957. In the 1950 gubernatorial election, he defeated state Treasurer Don H. Ebright; in 1952, he beat then Cincinnati Mayor Charles Phelps Taft II (1897–1983), the youngest son of former [[U.S. President]] [[William Howard Taft]]. In 1954, he toppled state Auditor [[Jim Rhodes|James J. Rhodes]], who later became governor himself. Lausche resigned in early 1957, having won election to the United States Senate in November 1956; he unseated Republican [[George Bender]].
+Lausche served as mayor until 1944, when he first won election as governor, the first [[Roman Catholic]] in that position when term were for two years. He was narrowly defeated in 1946, a heavily Republican year by the Republican Thomas H. Herbert (1894–1974) but rebounded in 1948 by unseating Herbert. He served four consecutive terms from 1949 to 1957. In the 1950 gubernatorial election, he defeated state Treasurer Don H. Ebright; in 1952, he beat then Cincinnati Mayor Charles Phelps Taft, II (1897–1983), the youngest son of former [[U.S. President]] [[William Howard Taft]]. In 1954, he toppled state Auditor [[Jim Rhodes|James J. Rhodes]], who later became governor himself. Lausche resigned in early 1957, having won election to the United States Senate in November 1956; he unseated Republican [[George Bender]].
 In his first term in the Senate, Lausche threatened to support Republican [[William F. Knowland]] of [[California]] as the Senate Majority Leader rather than future [[U.S. President]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] of [[Texas]], but he did not do so. The plain-spoken old school politician, Lausche built a coalition of ethnic voters in Cleveland. He was even considered for the Republican vice-presidential nomination by [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] in both 1952 and 1956, but the selection went to Senator [[Richard M. Nixon]] of [[California]]. Coincidentally, Lausche lost his Senate seat the same year that Nixon was elected president. With his bipartisan and [[Independent voter|independent]] approach to politics, Lausche was easily re-elected to the Senate in 1962 at the height of the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]]. In 1968, [[organized labor]] turned against him, and he was rather handily defeated in the Democratic primary by later Governor John Joyce Gilligan (1921–2013). In the [[general election]], however, Gilligan lost to [[Moderate Republican]] state attorney general [[William B. Saxbe]] won the seat.

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-'''Frank John Lausche''' (pronounced LOW SHE) (November 14, 1895 &ndash; April 21, 1990) was a big-city [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[politician]] of Slovenia]]n descent from his native [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]]. He served two terms in the [[United States Senate]] from 1957 to 1969). He was twice the [[governor]] of his state from 1945 to 1947 and 1949 to 1957. He was also the 47th [[mayor]] of Cleveland from 1942 to 1944. .
+'''Frank John Lausche''' (pronounced LOW SHE) (November 14, 1895 &ndash; April 21, 1990) was a big-city [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] [[politician]] of [[Slovenia]]n descent from his native [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]]. He served two terms in the [[United States Senate]] from 1957 to 1969). He was twice the [[governor]] of his state from 1945 to 1947 and 1949 to 1957. He was also the 47th [[mayor]] of Cleveland from 1942 to 1944. .
 ==Background==

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 ==External links==
 *[https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=L000122 Profile] at the ''Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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 ==References==
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 '''Parents''':<br>
 Louis and Frances Milavec Lausche
-|alma_mater=Cleveland State University<br> (Bachelor of Laws)}}
+|alma_mater=Cleveland State University<br> (Bachelor of Laws)
 }}
 '''Frank John Lausche''' (pronounced LOW SHE) (November 14, 1895 &ndash; April 21, 1990) was a big-city [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[politician]] of Slovenia]]n descent from his native [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]], [[Ohio]]. He served two terms in the [[United States Senate]] from 1957 to 1969). He was twice the [[governor]] of his state from 1945 to 1947 and 1949 to 1957. He was also the 47th [[mayor]] of Cleveland from 1942 to 1944. .

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 |term_start=January 3, 1957
 |term_end=January 3, 1969
-|preceded=George H. Bender
+|preceded=[[George Bender]]
 |succeeded=[[William B. Saxbe]]
 |office2=[[Governor]] of Ohio

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 ==Background==
-In 1911, after the death of his older brother, Lausche dropped out of the Central Institute Preparatory School and began working to help support his family but managed to find time for [[baseball]].  Recruited as a third baseman by the Duluth White Sox in Duluth, [[Minnesota]], he lagged in the hitting of curve balls and was released after thirty-one games. He then signed with a semi-professional team in Virginia in St. Louis County, Minnesota, located on the Mesabi Iron Range. He left after two weeks and returned to playing amateur ball in Cleveland. He tried baseball once more with the Lawrence, [[Massachusetts]] Barristers.<ref name=odenkirk/>
+In 1911, after the death of his older brother, Lausche dropped out of the Central Institute Preparatory School and began working to help support his family but managed to find time for [[baseball]].  Recruited as a third baseman by the Duluth White Sox in [[Duluth]], [[Minnesota]], he lagged in the hitting of curve balls and was released after thirty-one games. He then signed with a semi-professional team in Virginia in St. Louis County, Minnesota, located on the Mesabi Iron Range. He left after two weeks and returned to playing amateur ball in Cleveland. He tried baseball once more with the Lawrence, [[Massachusetts]] Barristers.<ref name=odenkirk/>
 In 1917, he enlisted in the [[United States Army]] after the American entry into [[World War I]] and completed high school in the military. While at Camp Gordon, near [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]], Lausche joined the camp's baseball team. He was promoted to second lieutenant after eight months and assigned to officers' training school. His success in baseball kept him from the front lines of battle.<ref name=odenkirk>James E. Odenkirk, ''Frank J. Lausche: Ohio's Great Political Maverick'' (Wilmington, Ohio: Orange Frazer, 2005), p. 56.</ref>
 ==Legal and political career==

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 Lausche served as Municipal Court judge from 1932 to 1937 and Common Pleas Court judge from 1937 to 1941, before winning election as mayor in 1941.<ref name=odenkirk/>
-Lausche served as mayor until 1944, when he first won election as governor, the first [[Roman Catholic]] in that position when term were for two years. He was narrowly defeated in 1946, a heavily Republican year by the Republican Thomas H. Herbert (1894-1974) but rebounded in 1948 by unseating Herbert. He served four consecutive terms from 1949 to 1957. In the 1950 gubernatorial election, he defeated state Treasurer Don H. Ebright; in 1952, he beat then Cincinnati Mayor Charles Phelps Taft II (1897-1983), the youngest son of former [[U.S. President]] [[William Howard Taft]]. In 1954, he toppled state Auditor [[James J. Rhodes]], who later became governor himself. Lausche resigned in early 1957, having won election to the United States Senate in November 1956; he unseated Republican [[George Bender]].
+Lausche served as mayor until 1944, when he first won election as governor, the first [[Roman Catholic]] in that position when term were for two years. He was narrowly defeated in 1946, a heavily Republican year by the Republican Thomas H. Herbert (1894-1974) but rebounded in 1948 by unseating Herbert. He served four consecutive terms from 1949 to 1957. In the 1950 gubernatorial election, he defeated state Treasurer Don H. Ebright; in 1952, he beat then Cincinnati Mayor Charles Phelps Taft II (1897-1983), the youngest son of former [[U.S. President]] [[William Howard Taft]]. In 1954, he toppled state Auditor [[Jim Rhodes|James J. Rhodes]], who later became governor himself. Lausche resigned in early 1957, having won election to the United States Senate in November 1956; he unseated Republican [[George Bender]].
 In his first term in the Senate, Lausche threatened to support Republican [[William F. Knowland]] of [[California]] as the Senate Majority Leader rather than future [[U.S. President]] [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] of [[Texas]], but he did not do so. The plain-spoken old school politician, Lausche built a coalition of ethnic voters in Cleveland. He was even considered for the Republican vice-presidential nomination by [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] in both 1952 and 1956, but the selection went to Senator [[Richard M. Nixon]] of [[California]]. Coincidentally, Lausche lost his Senate seat the same year that Nixon was elected president. With his bipartisan and [[Independent voter|independent]] approach to politics, Lausche was easily re-elected to the Senate in 1962 at the height of the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]]. In 1968, [[organized labor]] turned against him, and he was rather handily defeated in the Democratic primary by later Governor John Joyce Gilligan (1921-2013). In the [[general election]], however, Gilligan lost to [[Moderate Republican]] state attorney general [[William B. Saxbe]] won the seat.
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 In his later years, Lausche and his wife, the former Jane O. Sheal (1903-1981), resided in Bethesda, [[Maryland]]. Not long before his death, Lausche was admitted to the Slovenian Home for the Age, where he died of congestive heart failure. [[Pope]] [[John Paul II]] named Lausche a Knight of St. John of Malta, the highest civilian honor that can be bestowed by the church. The Lausches are interred at Calvary Cemetery in southeastern Cleveland.<ref>Odenkirk, p. 371.</ref>
 The Frank J. Lausche State Office Building in Cleveland, the Ohio Expo Center in the capital city of [[Columbus, Ohio|Columbus]], and Lausche Avenue in east Cleveland are named in his honor.
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