Background
Mendenhall, John Ryan was born on January 17, 1928 in Des Moines. Son of Merritt Blake and Elizabeth M. (Ryan) Mendenhall.
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Mendenhall, John Ryan was born on January 17, 1928 in Des Moines. Son of Merritt Blake and Elizabeth M. (Ryan) Mendenhall.
University of Notre Dame (Bachelor of Science, cum laude, 1950). Harvard University (Juris Doctor, 1953). Certified Public Accountant, Ohio, 1956.
Author; Tax Articles, 'New Depreciation Rate Guidelines,' October, 1962 and 'Changing, Improving, Protecting Accounting Methods and Practices,” January, 1967, Taxes. 'Depreciation Guidelines: The New Changes and Some Remaining Problems,’ October, 1964 and "What Risks Now for Partnership Treatment of Shelters?" September, 1975, Journal of Taxation: Taxing Inflationary Profits," Tax Executive, July, 1976. "Report on United States.
Experience on Inflation and the Tax Structure," OTA Papers, February, 1977. Tax Indexation for Business," National Tax Journal, September, 1980. "Investment Credit Problems," Computers and Taxes Conference, 1967 Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Computers and Taxes sponsored by the Computers-in-Law Institute, George Washington University.
"Structural Consideration of Existing Investment Credit," Sixty-eight Annual Conference on Taxation, National Tax Association Tax Institute of America, November, 1975. "Planning for the Professional Partnership from Inception Through Retirement and Death," New York University Thirty-fifth Annual Institute on Federal Taxation. "Inflation and Taxation-USA," International Fiscal Association XXXI Congress, 1977.
"Book Review; Partnership Taxation," The George Washington Law Review, January, 1977.
Member tax staff, Arthur Andersen & Company, Cleveland, 1953-1963; partner, Arthur Andersen & Company, Cleveland, 1963-1966; director taxes, Arthur Andersen & Company, Chicago, 1966-1970; partner, Arthur Andersen & Company, Washington, 1970-1974; partner, Williams, Connolly & Califano, Washington, 1974-1976; general tax counsel, Union Pacific Corporation, New York City, 1977-1980; vice president taxes, Union Pacific Corporation, New York City, 1980-1993. Board directors Empire Steel Castings, Reading, Pennsylvania.
Board directors Cook County Hospital, Chicago, 1968-1971, Institute Research on Economics of Taxation, Washington, 1977-1993, Burnside Plantation Inc., Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1989-1993. Trustee Convent of Sacred Heart, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1976-1980. Board governors Bethlehem Area Foundation, 1989-1993, chairman 1991-1992.
President Greenwich Branch of English Spkg. Union, 1994-2000. With United States Army, 1946-1947, Japan. Member American Bar Association (tax section, chairman indexing committee 1985-1986), American Council Capital Formation (board directors 1972-1988), Business Roundtable (tax advisory group 1977-1992), Chamber of Commerce United States (member tax committee 1972-1992), American Law Institute (tax advisory group 1974-1988), National Tax Association (president 1981-1982), National Chamber Foundation (chairman tax committee 1984-1993), Chevy Chase (Maryland) Club, Harvard Club (New York City), Belle Haven Club.
Married Joan Lois Schafer, June 20, 1953. Children: Thomas, James, Jane, Julie, Robert, Jennifer.