Contents Mr. Thomas A. Jenkins, of Ohio.---. Tribute by Senator Taft, of Ohio.... Mr. Francis D. Culkin, of New York_ Mr. William E. Hess, of Ohio---. Mr. J. Harry McGregor, of Ohio__ Mr. Harry N. Routzohn, of Ohio.... Mr. Clarence J. Brown, of Ohio_ Mr. Robert Crosser, of Ohio__. Mr. Frederick C. Smith, of Ohio.. Mr. Clifford R. Hope, of Kansas- Mr. Charles H. Elston, of Ohio__ Mr. Frank O. Horton, of Wyoming-. Mr. John J. Cochran, of Missouri_ Biography CHESTER CASTLE BOLTON was born in Cleveland, Ohio, September 5, 1882; attended the public schools; was graduated from the University School, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1901 and from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., in 1905; employed in the steel industry in Cleveland as clerk and assistant treasurer 1905-1917; member of the Ohio National Guard 19051915; during the World War was commissioned a captain in the Reserve Corps and ordered into active service in March 1917; detailed first to the War Industries Board, then served as aide to the Assistant Secretary of War; transferred to the General Staff in 1917, and ordered to the War College for a course of instruction in officers' field training in 1918; promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel and detailed to the One Hundred and First Division as Assistant Chief of Staff; discharged in December 1918; after the war returned to Cleveland, Ohio, and served as a director of several large business corporations, also as trustee of various civic and educational institutions; also engaged in raising and breeding cattle; member of the Lyndhurst Village Council 1918-1921; served in the State senate 1923-1928 and served as president pro tempore in 1927 and 1928; delegate to the Republican National Convention at Kansas City in 1928; elected as a Republican to the Seventy-first and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1929-January 3, 1937); unsuccessful for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress; served as chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee in 1934 and 1936; resumed his former business pursuits; again elected to the Seventy-sixth Congress, and served from January 3, 1939, until his death in Cleveland, Ohio, October 29, 1939; interment in Lake View Cemetery. |