was also a member of the Commission on the Selection of Vice Presidential Candidates. Though not a member of the Mikulski Commission on Delegate Selection, O'Hara worked closely with it and later served on the Compliance Review Commission charged with enforcing the Mikulski Commission's delegate selection guidelines for the 1976 party convention. O'Hara was a charter member and national co-chairman of the Coalition for a Democratic Majority. This organization of "regular Democrats" was formed in the aftermath of the landslide defeat the Democratic party suffered in 1972. It was opposed to the "new politics" represented by the McGovern faction of the party and sought to revise the reforms instituted after the 1968 convention. In 1976 O'Hara sought the Democratic Party nomination for United States senator to succeed the retiring Phil Hart. O'Hara lost the primary election to Donald Riegle and Richard Austin. After finishing out his term in the 94th Congress, O'Hara returned to the practice of law. He died on March 13, 1989. Personal life O'Hara was a resident of Hollin Hills near Alexandria, Virginia, until his death at age 63 from lung cancer at the George Washington University Medical Center in Washington. He is interred in Arlington National Cemetery. References The Political Graveyard Bentley Historical Library – James G. O'Hara papers: 1958–1987 (bulk 1958–1976) (University of Michigan) |- 1925 births 1989 deaths 20th-century American politicians United States Army personnel of World War II Burials at Arlington National Cemetery Deaths from lung cancer Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Michigan Michigan lawyers United States Army soldiers University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy alumni University of Michigan Law School alumni 20th-century American lawyers