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| Bill McCulloch |
The placid town of Piqua, Ohio, sits in the state’s
west-central section, barely half-an-hour’s ride from the Dayton bicycle shop
where Orville and Wilbur Wright helped prove that man could fly. Its name comes
from the Shawnee Indian phrase “Othath-He-Waugh-Pe-Qua,” meaning “He has risen
from the ashes!” and its best-known homegrown product is probably the Mills
Brothers, the close harmony African-American singing ensemble that thrived from
the Great Depression through the Vietnam War. The modern municipality
incorporates a community once known as Rossville, which became the first
free-black enclave in the region after a local slave owner’s death in 1833.
Today, Piqua is represented in Congress by the
Honorable John Boehner, the speaker of the House of Representatives, who has
shown himself politically unwilling (or at least unable) to protect gay men and
lesbians from employment discrimination, to address the need for comprehensive
immigration reform or simply to keep the government up and running in the face
of the tea party’s caprice last fall.
Fifty years ago, the congressman from Piqua was an
equally conservative fellow — but an altogether different man. His name was
Bill McCulloch...
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