Draft:John Stender

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John Stender
Stender in 1969
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health
In office
April 10, 1973 – July 1975
President
Preceded byM. Chain Robbins (acting)
Succeeded by
  • Bert Concklin (acting)
  • Marshall Miller (acting)
Member of the Washington Senate
from the 30th district
In office
1962 – March 19, 1973
Preceded byLouis E. Hofmeister
Succeeded byMichael W. Mattingly
Personal details
Born(1919-07-16)July 16, 1919
Ismay, Montana, U.S.
DiedJanuary 19, 1993(1993-01-19) (aged 73)
Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Political partyRepublican

John H. Stender (July 16, 1919 – January 19, 1993) was an American politician and government official.

Early life[edit]

Stender was born on July 16, 1919, in Ismay, Montana.[1] He had a sister, Evelyn, and a brother, Carl. He grew up on a ranch and attended Ismay High School, where he graduated from in 1932. He graduated from Billings Polytechnic Institutite (now Rocky Mountain College) in Billings, Montana at the age of 18, and moved to Seattle, Washington, where he worked at a shipyard.[1][2] He became a member of the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, Iron Shipbuilders, Forgers and Helpers, and later one of the union's business agents, remaining in the union for 40 years and rising to the rank of international vice president.[3][4] Stender married his wife Mary Ruth and had a daughter, JoAnne, two sons, John Jr. and James, and a step-daughter, Joan.[2]

Political career[edit]

A Republican, Stender became an executive board member of the King County Republican Club and in 1961, he was elected Republican Man of the Year.[5] He ran for the United States House of Representatives to represent the 7th district of Washington in the 1960 elections. Stender won the Republican primary with 15,800 votes, compared to 10,500 votes for Dan Danilov and 6,400 votes for Robert H. Howard. He ran in the general election against Democrat Don Magnuson, who had drunkly collapsed in a restaurant shortly after the primaries. Stender found his campaign taken over by a public relations company and, receiving large numbers of donations, ran on his union background, including printing a brochure showing him with Nelson Rockefeller, the Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell and blue collar workers. After initially being presumed to be the winner, he lost the election to Magnuson after a full count of the absentee ballots. The Republicans demanded a recount, which maintained Magnuson's victory with a margin of 139 votes.[6][7]

Stender was first elected to the Washington State Senate in 1962 for the 30th district and served three terms until his resignation on March 19, 1973.[2][8] In 1970, he introduced legislation to require state colleges to expel students for disruptive behavior.[9] He was appointed by President Richard Nixon in 1973 to lead the newly-established Federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration as its first director.[2]

Stender was appointed to the Selective Service Adminstration in 1975 by President Gerald Ford as an assistant secretary until 1977, when he became an assistant secretary for labor affairs within the Environmental Protection Agency.[2][10][3]

Death and legacy[edit]

Stender died on January 16, 1993, at the Hallmark Nursing Home in Federal Way, Seattle. He died of bone cancer at the age of 76.[2][10]

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References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Article clipped from The Missoulian". The Missoulian. 1959-12-17. p. 5. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "John Stender, 76, Dies; First Director of OSHA". The New York Times. 1993-01-19. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
  3. ^ a b "DEATHS". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
  4. ^ "Union Boss Seeks GOP Nomination". The Spokesman-Review. 1960-05-19. p. 41. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
  5. ^ "Nixon Appointed Federal Way's John Stender First Leader Of Osha | The Seattle Times". archive.seattletimes.com. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
  6. ^ Bone, Hugh A. (1961). "The 1960 Election in Washington". Western Political Quarterly. 14 (1): 373–382. doi:10.1177/106591296101400113. ISSN 0043-4078.
  7. ^ "Washington voters prefer Richard Nixon for U.S. president, re-elect G". www.historylink.org. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
  8. ^ "State of Washington Members of the Legislature, 1889 – 2011" (PDF). Washington State Legislature. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2022-04-20.
  9. ^ "Automatic Dismissal Plan Urged". Spokane Chronicle. 1970-06-30. p. 17. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
  10. ^ a b Archives, L. A. Times (1993-01-19). "John Stender; First Director of OSHA". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
  11. ^ Chapman, William (1977-06-14). "Mahon Role in OSHA Mill Inspections Hit". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
  12. ^ "Safety Rules Issued for Vinyl Chloride". The New York Times. 1974-10-02. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
  13. ^ "2 Experts Assigned By Dunlop to Study Job Safety Agency". The New York Times. 1975-06-19. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
  14. ^ Rattner, Steven (1975-02-02). "SPOTLIGHT". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
  15. ^ "2. John Stender Administration, 1973-1975: OSHA Becomes an Agency in Crisis". DOL. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
  16. ^ "Stender Labors Up Ladder". The Olympian. 1973-03-20. p. 8. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
  17. ^ "Sen. John Stender Quits Committee... With Words". The Olympian. 1971-04-29. p. 35. Retrieved 2024-01-20.
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