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Bob McEwen | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 6th district | |
| In office January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1993 | |
| Preceded by | Bill Harsha |
| Succeeded by | Ted Strickland |
| Member of the Ohio House of Representatives from the 77th district | |
| In office January 3, 1975 – December 31, 1980 | |
| Preceded by | Joseph Hiestand |
| Succeeded by | Joe Haines |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 12, 1950 Hillsboro, Ohio, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | Elizabeth Boebinger |
| Children | 4 |
| Education | University of Miami (BBA) Ohio State University |
Robert D. McEwen (born January 12, 1950) is an American lobbyist and former Republican Party politician. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from southern Ohio's Sixth District, from January 3, 1981, to January 3, 1993. Tom Deimer of Cleveland's Plain Dealer described him as a "textbook Republican" who is opposed to abortion, gun control and high taxes. In the House, he criticized government incompetence and charged corruption by the Democratic majority that ran the House in the 1980s. McEwen, who had easily won three terms in the Ohio House, was elected to Congress at the age of thirty to replace a retiring representative in 1980 and easily won re-election five times.
After a primary battle with another incumbent whose district was combined with his, McEwen narrowly lost the 1992 general election to Democrat Ted Strickland. Following a run in the adjacent second district in 1993, McEwen was largely absent from the Ohio political scene for a decade, until in 2005 when he sought the Republican nomination for Congress in the second district special election to replace Rob Portman, who beat him in 1993, and finished second to the winner in the general election, Jean Schmidt. McEwen's 2005 platform was familiar from his past campaigns, advocating a pro-life stance, defending Second Amendment rights, and promising to limit taxes and government spending.