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Ronald M. Mottl

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Ron Mottl
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives
In office
January 3, 1987 – February 5, 1997
Preceded by June Kreuzer
Succeeded by Ron Mottl Jr.
Member of the United States House of Representatives
In office
January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1983
Preceded by William Edwin Minshall, Jr.
Succeeded by District eliminated
Member of the Ohio Senate
from the 24th district

In office
January 3, 1969 – December 31, 1974
Preceded by Francis D. Sullivan
Succeeded by Jerome Stano

In office
January 3, 1967 – December 31, 1968
Preceded by At-Large
Succeeded by Gertrude Polcar
Member of the Parma City Council[1]

In office
1960 – 1966[1]
Personal details
Born Ronald Milton Mottl
February 6, 1934(1934-02-06) (age 91)
Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Debra[2]
Children 4[2]
Military service
Service/branch United States Army[1]
Years of service 1957[1]

Ronald Milton Mottl (born February 6, 1934) is an American lawyer and politician who served as a Democratic member of the state House of Representatives of Ohio from 1987 to 1997. Before that, he served four terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1983.

Early life[]

Mottl was born in Cleveland, Ohio to Miroslav Václav Josef Mottl (1899-1945) and Anna Huml (1903-1990), a couple of Czech descent.[3] His father, an immigrant from Počaply, died from chronic valvular heart disease when he was 11.[4][5] His mother, born in Pittsburgh to parents from Kvaň and Mýto, remarried to Václav Schovánek (1907-1987) from Kladno.[6] Mottl graduated from Parma Schaaf High School in 1952 and later was inducted into the school’s athletic hall of fame. He attended the University of Notre Dame for which he played baseball in 1955.[1][7] He served in the United States Army Reserves in 1957.

Career[]

He is a lawyer, and served in the city council of Parma, Ohio from 1960 to 1966[8] and the Ohio state legislature from 1967 until 1975, before serving in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 1983.[1] A conservative Democrat, Mottl was an ally of Ronald Reagan's legislative agenda.[9]

He lost the Democratic primary[1] to Ed Feighan in 1982, thereby losing his seat.[10] He then returned to local politics, serving on the Parma school board from 1985 until 1986, and as president of the school board in 1986, until he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives, where he served until 1997.[1]

He now lives in North Royalton, Ohio, and was an unsuccessful candidate for Mayor of North Royalton in 1999.

Personal life[]

Mottl has four children.[9] Ronald Jr. and Rhonda are from his first marriage and Ron Michael and Amanda Leigh are from his second marriage to Debbi.[9]

See also[]

  • List of United States representatives from Ohio

References[]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 "MOTTL, Ronald Milton". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=M001044. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The President's Corner
  3. ↑ Apple Jr, R. W. (1970-08-22). "Fall Elections in Ohio to Test Power of Incumbents" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/1970/08/22/archives/fall-elections-in-ohio-to-test-power-of-incumbents.html. 
  4. ↑ "Státní oblastní archiv v Praze". https://ebadatelna.soapraha.cz/d/10167/140. 
  5. ↑ Mottl (1945). "Ohio Deaths, 1908-1953". https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:X6FT-Q2B. 
  6. ↑ Schovanek (1987). "United States Social Security Death Index". https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V9QL-LMF. 
  7. ↑ "Notre Dame Athletics | The Fighting Irish" (in en-US). https://und.com/. 
  8. ↑ Sandrick, Bob (2011-04-07). "Ron "Mickey" Mottl hopes to follow his father to the political stage" (in en). https://www.cleveland.com/parmasunpost/2011/04/ron_mickey_mottl_hopes_to_foll.html. 
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Maxa, Rudy (8 November 1981). "FROM BEAUTIFUL DOWNTOWN PARMA, IT'S REP. RON MOTTL AND THE RONETTES". https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/magazine/1981/11/08/from-beautiful-downtown-parma-its-rep-ron-mottl-and-the-ronettes/3350d8a1-e7d9-411b-86f3-ece74db776c7/. 
  10. ↑ Peterson, Iver (1982-06-13). "The Ohio Primary Provides Little to Cling To" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/13/weekinreview/the-ohio-primary-provides-little-to-cling-to.html. 
United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
William Edwin Minshall, Jr. 		Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Ohio's 23rd congressional district
1975-1983 		Succeeded by
District eliminated
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