Ernest John Bohn

Background

Bohn, Ernest John was born on May 12, 1901 in Austria-Hungary. Son of Frank J. and Juliana (Kiry) Bohn.

Education

Graduate School Design.

Career

Admitted to Ohio bar, 1926, practiced in Cleveland, 1926-1938. Member Ohio General Assembly, 1929-1930. Member Cleveland City Council, 1930-1940.

Member International Housing Commission, 1934.

Architectural advising committee Federal Public Housing Authority, 1939. Consultant United States Housing Authority, Housing and Home Finance Agency, Resettlement Administration, Defense Housing division Federal Works Agency Public Housing Administration, unites states department Health, Edition and Welfare.

Retired 1st director Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority. Now lecturer urban and environmental studies Case Western Reserve University Director, organizer Regional Association Cleveland.

Board directors National Housing Conference.

Director 2d Federal Savings and Loan Association Cleveland. Former chairman City Planning Commission Cleveland.

Advisory board Urban Renewal Agency Cleveland. Organizer chairman 1st National Conference Slum Clearance, 1933.

Member Ohio Urban Development Commission, Midwest Regional Planning Commission.

Member policy committee, planning committee health goals and central planning board Cleveland Welfare Federation. Member Regional Planning Commission Cuyahoga County (O.). Formerly member Executive Committee International Federation Housing and Town Planning, The Hague.

Executive Committee President Eisenhower’s advising committee housing policies.

Past Executive Committee American Council to Improve our Neighborhoods. Member National Action Council of Urban American National Urban Coalition, National Council on Aging, commission on housing for elderly, advising committee housing and community development and housing for senior citizens Housing and Home Finance Agency, Washington.

Advising committee on retired workers United Auto Workers, Detroit. United States delegate housing committee United Nations Economics Common for Europe, Geneva, Switzerland, 1959.

National committee White House Conference Children and Youth, 1960, panel on physical environment President's Commission National Goals, 1960.

Administrative committee, national advising committee White House Conference on Aging, 1961. Consultant subcommittee problems aged and aging United States Senate. Member Ohio Government"s Commision on Aging, also advisory board Ohio Administration Aging.

Member of advisory committee Ohio Civil Rights Commission.

Panel consultant on aging Department Health Education, Welfare. Trustee Better Homes and Neighborhoods Cleveland.

Member Cleveland Metropolitan Services Commission. Advisory board, past chairman Catholic Charities Bureau.

Trustee, member Executive Committee Catholic Charities Corporation.

Citizens advising committee Cuyahoga County Hospital Board, DePaul Infant Home, others Member of council of Civil Defense advisory board Saint Vincent’s Charity Hospital, Garden Center, Cleveland. Advising committee Notre Dame College, Cleveland.

Chairman Development Council Greater Cleveland.

Member Cuyahoga County Governmental Consolidated Committee Past president League Republican Clubs of Cuyahoga County. Former member Cuyahoga County Republican Executive Committee Past member visiting committee Harvard Graduate School Design.

Member visiting committee Western Reserve University School Applied Society Sciences. Trustee Goodrich Social Settlement.

Company-founder, former trustee Golden Age Center, Roadside Council.

Board directors, past president Ohio Planning Conference Cleveland Forum for Community Development, Citizen’s Action Committee on Nursing Homes. Trustee Visiting Nurses Association.

Achievements

• Ernest John Bohn has been listed as a reputable lawyer, university lecturer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member National Association Housing and Redevelopment Officials (a founder, 1st president), American Society Planning Officials (president 1951), Adult Education Association, Consumers League, National Conference Social Welfare, Cleve Bar Association, Western Reserve University Law School Alumni Association (president 1952). Club: Mid-Day.

Connections

Father:

Frank J. Bohn

Mother:

Juliana (Kiry) Bohn