Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mohammed Ibn Chambas, William Daroff, Mike Lebowitz, Jim Petro, Ron Klein, Lee Fisher, Stephen M. Young, Martin Hoke, Tim Grendell, Frank Labuda, Charles Vanik, Thomas A. Burke, Joseph E. Sinnott, Roscoe C. Mcculloch, L. L. Marshall, Nicholas Calio, Kevin G. Nealer, Ann Womer Benjamin. Excerpt: Ann Womer Benjamin is an American politician of the Republican party in Ohio and current director of the Northeast Ohio Council on Higher Education . Benjamin served in the Cabinet of the former Governor of Ohio, Bob Taft, as director of the Ohio Department of Insurance. See also (online edition) References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Congressman Charles A. Vanik (third from left) and Congressman Mo Udall (second from right) visit a Samsonite plant in Ambos Nogales, a link in the "twin plant" concept that has created hundreds of jobs for communities on both sides of the international boundary, 1978 Charles Albert Vanik (April 7, 1913 - August 30, 2007) was a Democratic politician from Ohio . He served in the United States House of Representatives . Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Vanik completed undergraduate studies and a law degree at Western Reserve University . After serving on the Cleveland City Council from 1938 to 1939 and the Ohio State Senate from 1940 to 1942, Vanik enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve, seeing action in both the Atlantic and Pacific theaters. After the war, Vanik served as a city judge from 1946 to 1954. In 1954, he was elected to the House from the 21st district on Cleveland's East Side. He shifted districts in 1968 to the neighboring 22nd district, to make way for Louis Stokes whose growing political operation had challenged him in previous races, defeating Frances P. Bolton, who had served the district since 19...