Geauga record. [volume] (Chardon, Geauga County, Ohio) 1952-1962, 1959-11-12

to Run for
Prosecutor

PROSECUTOR
Edwin T. Hofstetter, Geau-
ga county commissioner, an
nounced today that he will
seek the office of Geauga
county prosecutor in 1860 on
the Republican ticket. He will
endeavor to get his party's
nomination for that post in
the May primaries. The pre-
sent prosecutor, James Dins-
more, advised several weeks
ago that he would not run for
that office. Mr.. Hofstetter has
been a life long Republican.
He is a Chardon attorney and
is associated with Gene Hen
ry, former assistant Attor :
ney General, in the general
practice of law under t h
name of Henry and Hofstet-
ter.
Before being elected to the
office of Geauga c unity
Commissioner, which office
he assumed in January of
1857, he served as Justice of
the Peace for Chardon Town
ship. He served in that ca
pacity for three years, start
ing with January, 1854, and
resigned after bein eglected
to the Commissioner post. He
presently is vice chairman
of the Board of Commission
erS.
Mr.. Hofstetter, a lifelong
resident of Geauga County,
was born at Huntsburg, Ohio,
in 1918. He graduated from
Huntsburg High School in
1885. In 1941 he received his
Bachelor Of Science in Agri-
culture from Ohio State Uni
versity with a major in rural
economics. In 1948 he enter
ed the Cleveland Marshall
School of Law, graduated in
1852, and passed the Ohio Bar
that year.
Community affairs have al
ways played a large part in
Mr.. Hofstetters life. He has
served organizations in
many capacities. Before en-
tering college he was Master
of the Huntsburg Grange and
shortly after receiving h ] S
Bachelors degree, he be
came Organization Director
of the Ashtabula County Fa-
l rm Bureau. He was a char
| ter member of the Chardon
Junior Chamber of G o m :
merce, holding numerous of.
fices therein including that OF
president. He has been pre-
sident of the Chardon Parent
Teachers Association. In JAN
uary of 1854 he was honored
by the Chardon Junior Cham
Der of Commerce with the dis
tinguished service award as
the Man of the Year for 1858.
He presently serves on num-
erous county committees in
cluding the Geauga County
Welfare Advisory Board and
the Geauga County Planning
Commission. He Is an asso-
ciate member of the Geauga
County Real Estate Board
and most recently served as
General Chairman of the Ge.
auga district finance cam
paign for the Boy Scouts ol
America Northeast 0 h ] o
Council.
His business experiences
include employment in t h
Chardon office of the Contra
National Bank from 1946 tt
1948, and employment as ths
Manager of the Order De
partment at the Chardon Ru
bber Company for several
years.
Also active IN Republican
politics is his wife, the for
mer Anna May Booth Of
Kirkland, whom he met ane
married while at Ohio State
University. The Hofstetters
have three children, Beth, 6
senior, and Edwina, a fresh
man at Chardon High, and
william, in the Chardon Ele
mentary School. The Hofstet
ters are active members O.
the Chardon Methodist chur
ch where Mr.. Hofstetter is OF
, the official board as chair
man of the Finance Commit
tee and Treasurer of tn e
building fund.
The offices of county pro
secutor and county commits
sioner are filled at the same
time, both to begin in Janu
airy of 1861. It should be not.
ed, therefore, that with the
announcement of his inten
tion to seek the prosecutor
post, Hofstetter's position ol
commissions will be filled