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John R. Schmidhauser
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 1st district |
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| In office January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1967 |
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| Preceded by | Fred Schwengel |
| Succeeded by | Fred Schwengel |
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| Born | January 3, 1922 Bronx County, New York, United States |
| Died | February 21, 2018 (aged 96) Santa Barbara, California, United States |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Profession | Political Scientist |
John Richard Schmidhauser (January 3, 1922 – February 21, 2018) was a retired American politician. He served one term as a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from southeastern Iowa. He beat the incumbent Republican Fred Schwengel in 1964 but losing to Schwengel two years later in 1966, and again in 1968.
After his political career, he served as a professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California, a position he held from 1973 to 1992, except when serving as a visiting professor at the University of Virginia from 1982 to 1983, and at Simon Fraser University, in Burnaby, British Columbia, in 1984. Since 1992 he has been a professor emeritus at USC.
Schmidhauser died in Santa Barbara, California on February 21, 2018 at the age of 96.
