Joseph Rhodes, Jr.
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Joseph Rhodes, Jr. (born 1947) is an American politician and activist.
Rhodes attended Pittsburgh public schools and received a B.S. in history from the California Institute of Technology in 1969. He attended Harvard University as a Junior Fellow in Intellectual History, 1969-1972. After completing work at Harvard, Rhodes held a number of teaching positions at the University of Massachusetts, California State College and the University of Pittsburgh. He was also employed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 1967, and served as a staff researcher for the Ford Foundation 1969-1970.
After 1968 Rhodes served on a number of national commissions studying such diverse subjects as the causes of campus unrest and the need for new structures in higher education. He was a consultant to the Office of the Secretary, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1968-1971; member of the MESPU Panel in the Office of Education 1969-1970; consultant to the White House Counsel to President Nixon, 1969-1970; member of President Nixon's Commission on Campus Unrest, 1970; and a member of President Nixon's Committee on Voluntary Service, 1969. He also served on the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Secretary's Committee on New Structures in Higher Education (The Newman Committee), 1969-1972, and the Advisory Panel of the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1971.
He was named on the master list of Nixon political opponents during his service to the Nixon administration.
Rhodes was elected to the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 24th Legislative District (Allegheny County), in 1972, and was reelected to the House for three successive terms. Rhodes sought the Democratic nomination for United States Senate in 1980, but lost in the primary to former Pittsburgh Mayor Peter F. Flaherty.
He was cited by Time Magazine as one of 200 new leaders in America and received the Americans for Democratic Action National Youth Award in 1971.
