caption district succeeded death_date death_place birth_place party term_end preceded office birth_date term_start image article_title state name alma_mater
c. 1955 8th walter e. powell c. william o'neill 13 august 1993 findlay , ohio findlay , ohio republican january 3 , 1973 january 5 , 1947 frederick cleveland smith william m. mcculloch speaker of the ohio house of representatives 26 may 1904 january 3 , 1951 january 1 , 1945 jackson edward betts 84th congress 1955.jpg jackson edward betts
 ohio jackson edward betts kenyon college yale law school
jackson edward betts

jackson edward betts -lrb- may 26 , 1904 -- august 13 , 1993 -rrb- was a republican member of the u.s. house of representatives from ohio .
jackson edward betts was born in findlay , ohio .
he graduated from kenyon college in gambier , ohio , in 1926 , and from yale law school in new haven , connecticut , in 1929 .
he was admitted to the bar in 1930 , and commenced the practice of law in findlay , ohio .
he served as prosecuting attorney of hancock county , ohio , from 1933 to 1937 .
he was a member of the ohio house of representatives from 1937 to 1947 , serving as speaker in 1945 and 1946 .
betts was elected as a republican to the eighty-second and to the ten succeeding congresses .
he was not a candidate in 1972 for reelection to the ninety-third congress .
he was a part-time teacher at findlay college from 1973 to 1983 and acting judge of findlay municipal court from 1981 to 1989 .
he was a resident of findlay , ohio , until his death there on august 13 , 1993 .
