He was active in the Ohio Republican Party , having been a longtime friend of John W. Bricker , and close friends of Ohio Republican leader Ed Schorr and U.S. Senate Majority Leader and Presidential son Robert A. Taft . He had extensive media contacts that he used to the 37th 's advantage in a dispute with the War Department in Washington , as well as to keep up on the political environment personally . At one point he was the mayor of Marble Cliff , Ohio , a tiny hamlet just outside downtown Columbus . He was an alternate delegate from the Ohio delegation to the 1940 Republican National Convention
1940 Republican National Convention
1940 Republican National Convention
Robert S. Beightler