John W. Gwynne

John W. Gwynne
Gwynne in 1937

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 3rd district
In office January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1949
Preceded by	Albert C. Willford
Succeeded by	H. R. Gross

Personal details
Born	John Williams Gwynne (1889-10-20)October 20, 1889 Victor, Iowa
Died	July 5, 1972(1972-07-05) (aged 82) Waterloo, Iowa
Political party	Republican
Alma mater	University of Iowa College of Law
Occupation	Lawyer
Military service
Allegiance	United States of America
Branch/service	United States Army
Years of service	1917–1919
Rank	Second lieutenant
Unit	88th Infantry Division 313th Trench Mortar Battery
Battles/wars	World War I

John Williams Gwynne (October 20, 1889 – July 5, 1972) was a seven-term Republican

Eisenhower Administration

Personal background

Born in Victor, Iowa, on October 20, 1889, Gwynne attended public schools. He graduated from the University of Iowa College of Law at Iowa City, Iowa, in 1914, and was admitted to the bar the same year. He then commenced practice in Waterloo, Iowa, and also engaged in agricultural pursuits.

During the

First World War, Gwynne served as a second lieutenant in the 313th Trench Mortar Battery of the United States Army's 88th Infantry Division

, from 1917 to 1919.

He later served as a judge of the municipal court of Waterloo from 1920 to 1926, and as County Attorney of Black Hawk County, Iowa, from 1929 to 1934.

Congress

In 1934, Gwynne ran for Congress against incumbent Democratic Congressman

H.R. Gross

, a popular radio news commentator, defeated Gwynne's bid for the Republican nomination.

Federal Trade Commission

President Dwight D. Eisenhower appointed Gwynne to the Federal Trade Commission in 1953, and appointed fellow Waterloo native Edward F. Howrey as its chair.^[1] When Howrey resigned as chair in 1955, Gwynne replaced him, and served as FTC chair until 1959.

He retired to Waterloo, where he died July 5, 1972. He was interred in Memorial Park Cemetery.

References

^ "New Faces for FTC," Time Magazine, 1955-08-22.

United States Congress. "John W. Gwynne (id: G000543)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Albert C. Willford	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa's 3rd congressional district 1935–1949	Succeeded by Harold R. Gross

v t e Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Iowa
1st	W. Thompson Miller Henn A. Hall S. Curtis J. F. Wilson McCrary Stone McCoid B. Hall Gear Seerley Gear S. Clark Hedge Kennedy Kopp Eicher Martin Schwengel Schmidhauser Schwengel Mezvinsky Leach Nussle Braley Blum Finkenauer Hinson Miller-Meeks
2nd	Leffler L. Clark J. P. Cook Thorington Davis Vandever Price Smyth W. Wolf Cotton Tufts Price Farwell Murphy Hayes G. Curtis Lane Rumple Wade Dawson Pepper Vollmer Hull Letts B. Jacobsen W. Jacobsen Talle L. Wolf Bromwell Culver Blouin Tauke Nussle Leach Loebsack Miller-Meeks Hinson
3rd	Allison Donnan Ainsworth Burdick Updegraff Henderson Birdsall Pickett Connolly Sweet Robinson Willford Gwynne Gross Grassley Evans Nagle Lightfoot Boswell Latham Young Axne Nunn
4th	Grinnell Loughridge Walden Pratt Deering Weller Fuller Sweney Butler Updegraff Haugen Biermann Talle LeCompte Carter Kyl Bandstra Kyl N. Smith Ganske Latham King Feenstra
5th	Kasson G. Dodge Palmer J. Wilson R. Clark W. G. Thompson J. Wilson Frederick Kerr J. Hamilton Cousins Good Cole Thurston LeCompte Cunningham N. Smith Scherle Harkin Lightfoot Grandy Latham King
6th	A. Hubbard Pomeroy Orr Loughridge Sampson Weaver Cutts J. C. Cook Cutts J. C. Cook Weaver Lacey White Lacey D. Hamilton Kendall Kirkpatrick Ramseyer Dowell Utterback Dowell Goodwin Cunningham Gilchrist J. I. Dolliver Coad Hoeven Greigg Mayne Bedell Grandy
7th	Kasson Cummings E. Gillette Kasson H. Smith Conger Hays Hull Prouty Dowell Wearin Jensen Hansen Scherle
8th	McDill Sapp Hepburn Anderson Flick Hepburn Jamieson Towner Evans Thurston Gilchrist Hoeven
9th	Orr Oliver Carpenter Pusey Lyman Reed Bowman Hager McPherson W. Smith Green Vincent Swanson G. Gillette Harrington Narey
10th	Holmes J. P. Dolliver Conner Woods Dickinson Gilchrist
11th	Struble Perkins Thomas E. Hubbard Scott Steele Scott Boies Campbell
AL	Hastings Leffler
Terr	Chapman A. Dodge

Iowa's delegation(s) to the 74th–80th United States Congresses (ordered by seniority)

74th	Senate: ▌ L. Dickinson (R) ▌ R. Murphy (D) ▌G. Gillette (D)	House: ▌L. Thurston (R) ▌F. Gilchrist (R) ▌B. Jacobsen (D) ▌F. Biermann (D) ▌E. Eicher (D) ▌G. Gillette (D) ▌O. Wearin (D) ▌J. Gwynne (R) ▌H. Utterback (D)
75th	Senate: ▌G. Gillette (D) ▌C. Herring (D)	House: ▌C. Dowell (R) ▌L. Thurston (R) ▌F. Gilchrist (R) ▌F. Biermann (D) ▌E. Eicher (D) ▌O. Wearin (D) ▌J. Gwynne (R) ▌V. Harrington (D) ▌W. Jacobsen (D)
76th	Senate: ▌G. Gillette (D) ▌C. Herring (D)	House: ▌C. Dowell (R) ▌F. Gilchrist (R) ▌J. Gwynne (R) ▌V. Harrington (D) ▌W. Jacobsen (D) ▌B. Jensen (R) ▌K. LeCompte (R) ▌T. Martin (R) ▌H. Talle (R)
77th	Senate: ▌G. Gillette (D) ▌C. Herring (D)	House: ▌F. Gilchrist (R) ▌J. Gwynne (R) ▌V. Harrington (D) ▌W. Jacobsen (D) ▌B. Jensen (R) ▌K. LeCompte (R) ▌T. Martin (R) ▌H. Talle (R) ▌P. Cunningham (R) ▌H. Narey
78th	Senate: ▌G. Gillette (D) ▌G. Wilson (R)	House: ▌F. Gilchrist (R) ▌J. Gwynne (R) ▌B. Jensen (R) ▌K. LeCompte (R) ▌T. Martin (R) ▌H. Talle (R) ▌P. Cunningham (R) ▌C. Hoeven (R)
79th	Senate: ▌G. Wilson (R) ▌B. Hickenlooper (R)	House: ▌J. Gwynne (R) ▌B. Jensen (R) ▌K. LeCompte (R) ▌T. Martin (R) ▌H. Talle (R) ▌P. Cunningham (R) ▌C. Hoeven (R) ▌J. Dolliver (R)
80th	Senate: ▌G. Wilson (R) ▌B. Hickenlooper (R)	House: ▌J. Gwynne (R) ▌B. Jensen (R) ▌K. LeCompte (R) ▌T. Martin (R) ▌H. Talle (R) ▌P. Cunningham (R) ▌C. Hoeven (R) ▌J. Dolliver (R)

This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

Chairs of the Federal Trade Commission
Member-selected (1915–1950)	Joseph E. Davies (1915–1916) • Edward N. Hurley (1916–1917) • William J. Harris (1917–1918) • William Byron Colver (1918–1919) • John Franklin Fort (1919) • Victor Murdock (1919–1920) • Samuel Huston Thompson (1920–1921) • Nelson B. Gaskill (1921–1922) • Victor Murdock (1922–1923) • Samuel Huston Thompson (1923–1924) • Vernon W. Van Fleet (1924–1925) • John F. Nugent (1925–1926) • Charles W. Hunt (1926–1927) • William E. Humphrey (1927–1928) • Abram F. Myers (1928–1929) • Edgar A. McCulloch (1929) • Garland Ferguson Jr. (1930) • Charles W. Hunt (1931) • William E. Humphrey (1932) • Charles H. March (1933) • Garland Ferguson Jr. (1934) • Ewin L. Davis (1935) • Charles H. March (1936) • William Augustus Ayres (1937) • Garland Ferguson Jr. (1938) • Robert E. Freer (1939) • Ewin L. Davis (1940) • Charles H. March (1941) • William Augustus Ayres (1942) • Garland Ferguson Jr. (1943) • Robert E. Freer (1944) • Ewin L. Davis (1945) • William Augustus Ayres (1946) • Garland Ferguson Jr. (1947) • Robert E. Freer (1948) • Lowell B. Mason (1949–1950)
Presidential appointments (1950–present) Acting chairs italicized	James M. Mead (1950–1953) • Edward F. Howrey (1953–1955) • John W. Gwynne (1955–1959) • Earl W. Kintner (1959–1961) • Paul Rand Dixon (1961–1969) • Caspar Weinberger (1970–1970) • Everette MacIntyre (1970–1973) • Lewis A. Engman (1973–1975) • Paul Rand Dixon (1976) • Calvin J. Collier (1976–1977) • Michael Pertschuk (1977–1981) • David A. Clanton (1981) • James C. Miller III (1981–1985) • Terry Calvani (1985–1986) • Daniel Oliver (1986–1989) • Janet Dempsey Steiger (1989–1995) • Robert Pitofsky (1995–2001) • Timothy Muris (2001–2004) • Deborah Platt Majoras (2004–2008) • William Kovacic (2008–2009) • Jon Leibowitz (2009–2013) • Edith Ramirez (2013–2017) • Maureen Ohlhausen (2017–2018) • Joseph Simons (2018–2021) • Rebecca Slaughter (2021) • Lina Khan (2021–2025) • Andrew N. Ferguson (2025–present)

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