Bob McEwen

Quick Facts

Full Name	Bob McEwen
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	Jan 12, 1950(1950-01-12)
Age	74
Birthplace	Hillsboro
Country	United States
Birth City	Ohio
Horoscope	Capricorn

Bob McEwen Biography

Bob McEwen is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on January 12, 1950 in Hillsboro, Ohio, United States. Bob McEwen (born January 12 1950) is an American politician from the Republican Party, who was an elected participant in the United States House of Representatives from Ohio’s southern Sixth District, from January 3, 1981 until January 3 1993. Tom Deimer of Cleveland’s Plain Dealer identified him as an “textbook Republican” who is opposed to abortion as well as gun control, and also tax burdens that are too high. In the House McEwen criticized the government’s incompetence and accused corruption of the Democratic majority in within the House throughout the 1980s. McEwen He had got 3 terms as a member of his time in the Ohio House, was elected to Congress at thirty-years-old to succeed a retiring congressman in 1980. He easily won the election five times.

The Ohio General Assembly redrew the Sixth District in response to its results from the Census. The boundaries between 1983 and 1987 encompassed the entirety the counties of Adams, Clinton, Fayette, Highland, Hocking, Jackson, Pike, Ross, Scioto, Vinton and Warren Counties, plus Waterloo and York Townships in Athens County; Wayne Township located in Clermont County; Concord, Jasper, Marion, Perry, Union, and Wayne Townships in Fayette County and Washington Township and the Cities of Miamisburg and West Carrollton in Montgomery County.

DeWine also questioned McEwen’s record on taxes, sending out mailings criticizing McEwen’s vote on May 24, 1982 in the 97th Congress “in support of a Democrat budget that raised out taxes by $233 billion.” Two mailings focused on this issue, one featuring a photograph of Ronald Reagan that was captioned “When President Reagan Needed Votes to Keep Taxes Low, Bob McEwen Said ‘NO'”, the other asking “Are We Still the Party of Lower Taxes?”

McEwen was easily re-elected to the House in every election but his last. In 1982, he defeated Lynn Alan Grimshaw, 92,135 to 63,435, and in the Reagan landslide of 1984 he beat Bob Smith nearly three-to-one, 150,101 to 52,727. In 1986 and 1988 he faced Gordon R. Roberts, defeating him two-to-one in 1986 (106,354 to 42,155 with independent Amos Seeley receiving a scattering) and three-to-one in 1988 (152,235 to 52,635). In the rematch, McEwen outspent Roberts twenty-to-one, $884,754 to $43,485. McEwen in 1990 beat his opponent, Raymond S. Mitchell — who the Dayton Daily News said “is an unknown small businessman who hasn’t thought things through” — by three to one. The tally was 117,200 to 47,415 in a race where Mitchell was outspent seventeen-to-one, McEwen spending $196,934 and Mitchell $11,171. Congressional Quarterly’s Politics in America pronounced him “invincible” in his district.

The original Sixth District was centered in the south-central and southwest regions of Ohio close to McEwen’s home town, Hillsboro. After redistricting, McEwen discovered himself in an enormous zone that stretches all the way from Lebanon up to Marietta. The new district was extremely difficult to run a campaign in. It was spread across six markets for media this meant that McEwen needed to pay for advertisements in cities where the majority viewers were unable to vote within the district. Also, it was lacking big cities, and had a some unifying factors. The Democratic opponent was a psychologist Ted Strickland, whom he had defeated in his first campaign in 1980.

Bob McEwen Net Worth

Bob McEwen is one of the richest Politician from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Bob McEwen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The family was born in Hillsboro, Ohio, McEwen graduated from Hillsboro High School in 1968. He received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida in 1972. He was also a student at the Ohio State University’s College of Law for one year between 1972 and 1973.

After two years working in the family’s real estate business, where he served as vice-president of Boebinger, Inc., McEwen was elected in 1974 at 24 in the Ohio House of Representatives in 1974, from the House District 72 that represented the southern part of Ohio. McEwen’s District included portions from Clinton, Fayette, Greene as well as Highland Counties and all of Madison County. McEwen was elected to two terms of two years. The year 1976 was his margin of victory in the race against Democrat L. James Matter was 14,816 votes. This was which was more than the number of votes cast by Matter. (McEwen was awarded 27,657 votes in comparison to 12,841 for Matter.) McEwen was an advocate of the State Lottery within the House. He was previously in charge of Sixth District Congressman Bill Harsha’s campaign for re-election to Congress in the years 1976 as well as 1978 McEwen took on Harsha’s position after his retirement in the year 1980. Harsha did not support McEwen in the eight-man primary McEwen won , but he backed McEwen during the general elections, where McEwen defeated the psychologist as well as Minister Ted Strickland, Harsha’s opponent in 1976 and 1978 who would later become the Governor of Ohio.

When McEwen was first elected in 1980, the Sixth District of Ohio consisted of Adams, Brown, Clinton, Fayette, Highland, Pickaway, Pike, Scioto, and Ross Counties plus Clermont County outside the city of Loveland, Harrison Township in Vinton County and the Warren County townships of Clearcreek, Deerfield, Hamilton, Harlan, Massie, Salem, and Wayne. The Washington Post described the Sixth as “a fail-safe Republican district.” It had been in Republican hands since a 1959 special election.

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After McEwen was criticized for his remarks, he delivered a thirty-minute speech in the House on March 1, 1990, on “The Worst City Government in America”. Because of the crime problem in the District, McEwen also attempted to pass legislation overturning the District council’s ban on mace, saying people in the District should be able to defend themselves. During the Persian Gulf War in 1991, McEwen introduced legislation to end President Gerald Ford’s ban on U.S. government employees assassinating foreign leaders (Executive Order 12333) in order to clear the way for Saddam Hussein’s removal, McEwen objecting to the “cocoon of protection that is placed around him because he holds the position that he holds as leader of his country.”

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A vehement anti-Communist, he visited Tbilisi in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia in 1991 to help tear down the hammer-and-sickle iconography of the Communist regime. That year he also called for the House to establish a select committee to investigate the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue – whether any soldiers declared “missing in action” in the Vietnam War and other American wars were still alive – by sponsoring H. Res. 207.