William B. Nye is a former member of the Ohio General Assembly

Ohio General Assembly

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. Originally a member of the Ohio House of Representatives

Ohio House of Representatives

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, he was elected to the Ohio Senate

Ohio Senate

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 in 1966, he was reelected in 1968. An unsuccessful candidate for Congress in 1970, he went on to serve a total of four years in the Senate, resigning in January 1971 to take become Natural Resource Director for Ohio Governor John J. Gilligan

John J. Gilligan

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. Following Gilligan's defeat in 1974, he went on to serve as director of the Great Lakes Regional Office of the International Joint Commission, until 1985, when he resumed private practice in Akron

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When Congressman John Seiberling announced he would not seek reelection in 1986, Nye opted to replace him. However, after state Senator Marcus Roberto

Marcus Roberto

Marcus Aurelius Roberto, a Democrat, was a member of the Ohio General Assembly. Roberto initially won a seat in the Ohio House of Representatives in 1970, replacing Anice Johnson, and won reelection in 1972 and 1974. However, Roberto sought to move up to the Ohio Senate in 1976. Challenging David...

 died and was replaced by Rep. Bob Nettle

Bob Nettle

Robert Nettle is a former member of the Ohio General Assembly. Nettle served as a member of the Barberton City Council for a number of years. Originally elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1976, Nettle went on to serve five terms in the lower chamber. In 1986, following the death of...

, Nye decided instead to run for a term in the Ohio House of Representatives

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. He was unsuccessful, but ran again in 1988, also losing. In 1990, he opted to run for the Ohio Court of Appeals, but lost, and ran again for a Summit County Domestic Relations Judge

Summit County, Ohio

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in 1992. Running once more for a judicial position in 1996, he has since served only in the private sector.