Albert David Baumhart Jr.

Baumhart was born in Vermilion, Ohio.[1] He attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, receiving his A.B. and M.A. in 1931.[1]

He was a publishing house representative at Vermilion, Ohio, from 1932 to 1939.[1] He was a member of the Ohio State Senate from 1937 to 1940.[1]

Baumhart was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh Congress.[1] He resigned to accept a commission in the United States Navy on September 2, 1942.[1] He was discharged as a lieutenant commander on January 17, 1946. He was a member of the public relations staff of Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp., in Toledo, Ohio, from 1946 to 1953.[1] He served as director of the Republican National Committee in 1953 and 1954.[1]

Baumhart was again elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth, Eighty-fifth, and Eighty-sixth Congresses.[1] He was not a candidate for renomination in 1960. Baumhart voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960.[2][3] He was a delegate to 1968 Republican National Convention.[1]

He later worked as public relations consultant.[1]

He died on January 23, 2001, in Lorain, Ohio.[1] He is interred at Maple Grove Cemetery in Vermilion, Ohio.[1]

• United States Congress. "Albert David Baumhart Jr. (id: B000245)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• The Political Graveyard