Ohio 5th District Republican Rep. Paul Gillmor, age 68, was found dead in his apartment in the nation's capital Wednesday. House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, told fellow congressmen on the floor of the House that their colleague died "suddenly overnight." "He was a good friend to all of us," said a somber Boehner. "He's going to be missed by us all."Gillmor, the deputy minority whip, was in his 10th term in the House and was a member of the House Committee on Financial Services, and the ranking Republican on the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit. He also served on the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance and Government Sponsored-Enterprises and the Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity.
He was elected to Congress in 1988, after serving in the Ohio State Senate for 22 years, where he was elected Republican leader five times. Gillmor was born Feb. 1, 1939, in Tiffin, Ohio. He received a bachelor of arts degree from Ohio Wesleyan Univ. and a law degree from the Univ. of Michigan Law School. The 2006, Roll Call newspaper listed him as the 43rd richest member of Congress, with an estimated net worth of $6.16 million. He formerly ran a financial services company. Gillmor was a Captain, USAF and a Vietnam Veteran (1965-1966). He is survived by his wife Karen Gillmor, vice chairman of the State Employment Relations Board in Ohio and a former state senator., and their two daughters, Linda and Julie, and three sons, Paul and twins Connor and Adam.
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