Joe Schwarz
| Joe Schwarz | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 7th district |
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In office January 3, 2005 – January 3, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Nick Smith |
| Succeeded by | Tim Walberg |
| Member of the Michigan Senate from the 24th district 20th District (1987-1994) |
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In office January 1, 1987 – December 31, 2002 |
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| Preceded by | Harry A. DeMaso |
| Succeeded by | Patricia L. Birkholz |
| Mayor of Battle Creek | |
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In office 1985–1987 |
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John J. H. Schwarz November 15, 1937 Battle Creek, Michigan |
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Independent Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Deceased |
| Residence | Battle Creek, Michigan |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan, Wayne State University, Harvard University |
| Occupation | physician |
| Religion | Roman Catholic |
John J. H. "Joe" Schwarz, M.D. (born November 15, 1937), is an independent politician from Michigan, who was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2004 as a moderate Republican. He represented Michigan's 7th congressional district from January 2005 to January 2007.
Schwarz was born and raised in Battle Creek, Michigan, after his family moved there in 1935 so his father could work as a physician in the Veterans Administration Hospital. He has two older siblings, Frank and Janet. He attended Fremont Elementary School, W.K. Kellogg Junior High School, and graduated from Battle Creek Central High School. He played on the baseball, swimming and football teams at B.C. Central. In 1959, he received a B.A. in History from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he played on the 1956 reserve football team as a center. He earned an M.D. from Wayne State University, Detroit, in 1964, completed his medical residency in Los Angeles and subsequently joined the United States Navy, where he served as a combat surgeon for a Marine battalion in Vietnam. He was then assigned to the U.S. Embassy at Jakarta, Indonesia, where he first met his future wife, Anne. From 1968 to 1970, he worked as a Central Intelligence Agency operative in Southeast Asia. After resigning from the CIA in 1970, he completed his surgical training in otolaryngology at the Harvard Medical School, where he married his wife and had a daughter, Brennan.
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