Richard Walker Bolling
| Richard Walker Bolling | |
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| Chairman of the House Rules Committee | |
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In office January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1983 |
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| Speaker | Tip O'Neill |
| Preceded by | James J. Delaney |
| Succeeded by | Claude Pepper |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri's 5th district |
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In office January 3, 1949 – January 3, 1983 |
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| Preceded by | Albert L. Reeves, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Alan Wheat |
| Personal details | |
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May 17, 1916 New York City |
| Died | April 21, 1991 (aged 74) Washington D.C |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Barbara Stratton |
| Alma mater | University of the South |
| Religion | Episcopalian |
Richard Walker Bolling (May 17, 1916 – April 21, 1991), was a prominent Democratic Congressman from Kansas City, Missouri, and Missouri's 5th congressional district from 1949 to 1983. He retired after serving for four years as the chairman of the powerful United States House Committee on Rules.
Born in New York City as the great-great-grandson of John Williams Walker and great-great-nephew of Percy Walker, he attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire. At the age of fifteen, upon his father’s death, he returned to the family home in Huntsville, Alabama. He then attended the University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee, where he studied literature and French, earning a B.A. in 1937 and an M.A., 1939. He went on to further graduate studies, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1939–1940.
An educational administrator by profession, Bolling taught at Sewanee Military Academy in 1938 and 1939, and then served as assistant to the head of the Department of Education at Florence State Teachers College, in Alabama, in 1940.
After retiring from Congress, Bolling was a visiting professor of political science at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a professor of politics at Boston College in Massachusetts.
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