REUSS, Henry Schoellkopf, a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., February 22, 1912; A.B., Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1933;
L.L.B., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1936; lawyer, private practice;
business executive; assistant corporation counsel for Milwaukee County, Wis.,
1939-1940; counsel for United States Office of Price Administration, 1941-1942;
United States Army, 1943-1945; chief of price control, Office of Military
Government for Germany, 1945; deputy general counsel, the Marshall Plan, Paris,
France, 1949; special prosecutor, grand jury, Milwaukee County, Wis., 1950;
member of school board, Milwaukee, Wis., 1953-1954; member of legal advisory
committee, United States National Resources Board, 1948-1952; unsuccessful
candidate for mayor of Milwaukee, Wis., in 1960; elected as a Democrat to the
Eighty-fourth and to the thirteen succeeding Congresses (January 3,
1955-January 3, 1983); chair, Committee on Banking, Currency, and Housing
(Ninety-fourth Congress); chair, Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban
Affairs (Ninety-fifth and Ninety-sixth Congresses); chair, Joint Economic
Committee (Ninety-seventh Congress); was not a candidate for reelection to the
Ninety-eighth Congress in 1982; died on January 12, 2002, in San Rafael,
Calif.; cremated.