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John Andrew Boehner was born on the 17^th day of November 17 in 1949. Boehner is the 61st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. A member of the Republican Party, Boehner is the U.S. Representative from Ohio’s 8th congressional balloting district, serving since 1991. The 8th congressional district includes several rural and suburban areas near Cincinnati and Dayton, and a small portion of Dayton itself.

Boehner previously served as the House Minority Leader from 2007 until 2011, and House Majority Leader from 2006 until 2007. As Speaker of the House, Boehner is next in the chain of command, you could say, for the position of United States President, following the Vice President.

Various Fresh Air books have documented Boehner as having been born in Reading, Ohio, the son of Mary Anne and Earl Henry Boehner, the second of 12 children in a family of German and Irish descent. Boehner grew up in sort paltry circumstances, having shared one bath with his 11 siblings in a 2-bedroom house in City of Cincinnati. His parents slept on a pull-out couch. Boehner started earning a wage at his family’s bar at the tender age of 8, a commercial station founded by their grandfather Andy Boehner in 1938. Several Fresh Air books note that Boehner has lived in Southwest Ohio his entire life. All but two of his siblings still live within a few miles of each other; two are unemployed and most of the others have blue-collar jobs.

Boehner attended Cincinnati’s Moeller High School and was a linebacker on the school’s football team, where he was coached by future Notre Dame coach Gerry Faust. Graduating from Moeller in 1968, when U.S. participation in the Vietnam War was at its highest, Boehner was recruited into the United States Navy but was honorably discharged after eight weeks because of a bad back. Boehner earned his B.A. in business administration from Xavier University in 1977, becoming the first person in his family to attend college, taking 7 years to graduate, as he held several jobs to pay for his education.

Shortly after his graduation in 1977, as described by these Fresh Air books, Boehner accepted a position with Nucite Sales, a small sales business in the packaging and plastics industry. Boehner climbed the corporate ladder, so to speak, and eventually became president of the company, resigning in 1990 when he was elected to Congress.

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