Joe Skubitz was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Kansas

Kansas

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Born in Frontenac, Kansas

Frontenac, Kansas

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, Skubitz attended grade school in Ringo, Kansas, and high schools in Girard and Frontenac, Kansas.
Kansas State College, Pittsburg, Kansas

Pittsburg, Kansas

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, B.S., 1929 and M.S., 1934.
He attended law school at Washburn University

Washburn University

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, Topeka, Kansas

Topeka, Kansas

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, in 1938, and graduated from the law school of George Washington University

George Washington University

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, Washington, D.C., LL.B., 1944.
He was admitted to the bar

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 in 1944 and commenced practice in Kansas and the District of Columbia.
Administrative assistant to Senator Clyde M. Reed from 1939 to 1949.
And Senator Andrew F. Schoeppel from 1949 to 1962.
He served as delegate, Republican National Convention, 1960.

Skubitz was elected as a Republican

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 to the Eighty-eighth

88th United States Congress

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 and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1963, until his resignation December 31, 1978.
He was not a candidate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth

96th United States Congress

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 Congress.
He died in Wichita, Kansas

Wichita, Kansas

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, on September 11, 2000.
He was interred at Old Mission Cemetery, Wichita, Kansas

Wichita, Kansas

Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.As of the 2010 census, the city population was 382,368. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area...

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