Willis David GRADISON, Jr., Congress, OH (1928)

GRADISON, Willis David, Jr., a Representative from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, December 28, 1928; attended the elementary and secondary schools in Cincinnati; B.A., Yale University, New Haven, Conn., 1949; M.B.A., Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, Cambridge, Mass., 1951; D.C.S., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1954; lawyer, private practice; investment broker; assistant to the Under Secretary of the United States Treasury, 1953-1955; assistant to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1955-1957; member, Cincinnati city council, 1961-1974; mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, 1971; elected as a Republican to the Ninety-fourth and to the nine succeeding Congresses and served until his resignation on January 31, 1993, (January 3, 1975-January 31, 1993); private advocate.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present