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Albert David Baumhart Jr. (June 15, 1908 – January 23, 2001) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio.
Baumhart was born in Vermilion, Ohio.He attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, receiving his A.B. and M.A. in 1931.He was a publishing house representative at Vermilion, Ohio, from 1932 to 1939.He was a member of the Ohio State Senate from 1937 to 1940.
Baumhart was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-seventh Congress.He resigned to accept a commission in the United States Navy on September 2, 1942.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.He served as director of the Republican National Committee in 1953 and 1954.
Baumhart was again elected as a Republican to the Eighty-fourth, Eighty-fifth, and Eighty-sixth Congresses.He was not a candidate for renomination in 1960. Baumhart voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960. He was a delegate to 1968 Republican National Convention. He worked as public relations consultant and died on January 23, 2001, in Lorain, Ohio.He is interred at Maple Grove Cemetery in Vermilion, Ohio.
