John Baker Hollister
Reublican. Politician. St. Paul’s School. Yale University. University of Munich. Harvard Law School. Board of various financial and manufacturing corporations.
Resumed Practuce of Law in Cincinnati.[3]
15 Jun 1955 to 13 Sep 1957 - International Cooperation Administration.[3]
1953 to Jul 1955 - Executive director of the Hoover Commission (appt by Truman to recommend admininstrative changes to the Federal Government of the U.S.- The reorganisation Act of 1949)[3]
1945, Headed United Nations Relief Rehabilitation Association’s mission to the Netherlands.[3]
1940, 1944, 1948 and 1952 - Republican National Conventions.[3]
1936 - Unsuccessfully candiate for re-election.[3]
3 Nov 1931 to 3 Jan 1937 - Member of the U.S House of Representatives from Ohio’s 1st district.[3]
Preceded by Death of Nicholas Longworth (Delta Kappa Epsilon, Alpha Chapter / Procellian Club). Succeeded by Joseph A. Dixon.
1921 to 1929 - Cincinnati Board of Education.[3]
WW1 - 1919 - American Relief Administration under Herbert Hoover (Bohemian).[3]
WW1 - From 15 Aug 1917 - First Lt U.S. Army. Captain Battery B, Forty-sixth Artillery Corps, Command Third Battalion of his regiment.[3]
1915 - Harvard Law School[3]
1911 to 1912 - University of Munich, Germany for a year.[3]
1911 - Yale University.[3]
Died 4 Jan 1979, from Not Known. Age 88.
Note: Son … John Baker Hollister Jr. (S&B 1949)
1931 - Hollister filled the seat of Nicholas Lonworth (Delta Kappa Epsilon (Alpha Chapter) and Porcellian Club) who died unexpectedly on 9 Apr 1931 from pneumonia whilst visiting his friend Dwight Filley Davis (1916 to 1917 - Rockefeller War Relief Board. Served Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. Sworn in with William Howard Taft (S&B 1878) Davis died 28 Nov 1945, Age 66 after a six month illness.)
Dwight Filley Davis’s daughter married British Ambassador to the United States Sir Roger Makins (Christ Church Oxford, Bar, Inner Temple, Joint Perm Secretary to the Treasury and Chairman of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority)
[1] - FYI - Wiki - John Baker Hollister
[3] - Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress
[4] - FYI - Wiki - Dwight F. Davis The swearing-in of Dwight Filley Davis (center), the Secretary of War under President Calvin Coolidge’s administration. John Wingate Weeks, his predecssor, is standing to Davis’s right. Former Secretary of War and President William Howard Taft is standing to Davis’s left.)
![[4] - FYI - Wiki - Dwight F. Davis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_F._Davis#/media/File:Swearing_in_of_Secretary_Dwight_Davis.jpg){kind=link}
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