Ray C. Bliss
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Ray C. Bliss (1907 - 1981) was one of the important national U.S. Republican Party leaders of the 1960s and served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1965 to 1969, culminating in the election of Richard M. Nixon as president. He had been Ohio Republican state chair (1954-1965) and was a delegate to Republican National Convention from Ohio in 1956 and 1960.
Bliss, an Akron, Ohio native and graduate of the University of Akron helped to pull the Republican party back together after Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964.
Bliss is the namesake of the Ray C. Bliss Insititute for Applied Politics at the University of Akron.
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