MEMORIAL SERVICES HELD IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESEN- OH HISTORY COLL

• Title: Memorial Services Held in the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States, Together with Tributes Presented in Eulogy of John M. Ashbrook, Late a Representative from Ohio (Ninety-seventh Congress, Second Session)

• Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), Washington, D.C., 1982.

• Binding: Official Congressional memorial edition; black buckram cloth with boxed gilt cover stamping and frontispiece portrait photograph.

• Contents: Official congressional resolutions, prayers, biographic summary, and eulogies delivered on the floor of both chambers by colleagues from across the country.

Interesting Facts

• Licking County Native & Political Dynasty: John Milan Ashbrook was born in Johnstown, Ohio, and represented Ohio's 17th Congressional District (which included Newark and surrounding counties) for over two decades (1961–1982). He succeeded his father, William A. Ashbrook, who had served as a Democratic congressman in the same area for decades before him.

• National Conservative Figure: Ashbrook was a founding figure of the modern American conservative movement. He helped establish the American Conservative Union (ACU) in 1964 and ran against incumbent President Richard Nixon in the 1972 Republican primaries from the conservative right to protest Nixon's detente with the Soviet Union and economic price controls.

• Sudden Passing: In April 1982, while actively campaigning in a high-profile race for the U.S. Senate, Ashbrook collapsed and died suddenly of a brain aneurysm at his desk in his Newark, Ohio law office at age 53. Following his death, his wife, Jean Spencer Ashbrook, won a special election to complete the remainder of his term in Congress.

• Living Legacy: In 1983, President Ronald Reagan traveled to Ashland, Ohio, to speak at the dedication of the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University, established in his memory as a national center for constitutional and political education.