K. William Stinson was a U.S. Representative

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 from Washington.

Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan

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, Stinson attended the public schools and Grand Rapids Junior College for two years. He graduated in 1952 from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
He entered executive training program of Westinghouse Electric Company

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. He enlisted in the United States Navy

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 in January 1953, attended Officers' Candidate School and served until June 1956. He was employed with Westinghouse Electric Corp. in Seattle, Washington

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 from 1956 to 1959. He was also a manufacturer's representative in the marine and sporting goods industry from 1959 to 1962.

Stinson was elected as a Republican

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 to the Eighty-eighth

88th United States Congress

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 Congress (January 3, 1963-January 3, 1965). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth

89th United States Congress

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 Congress.

He is currently a resident of Battle Ground, Washington

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