Joe Skubitz

Joe Skubitz (May 6, 1906 – September 11, 2000) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.

Born in Frontenac, Kansas, Skubitz attended grade school in Ringo, Kansas, and high schools in Girard and Frontenac, Kansas. Kansas State College, Pittsburg, Kansas, B.S., 1929 and M.S., 1934. He attended law school at Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas, in 1938, and graduated from the law school of George Washington University, Washington, D.C., LL.B., 1944. He was admitted to the bar in 1944 and commenced practice in Kansas and the District of Columbia. Administrative assistant to Senator Clyde M. Reed from 1939 to 1949. And Senator Andrew F. Schoeppel from 1949 to 1962. He served as delegate, Republican National Convention, 1960.

Skubitz was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1963, until his resignation December 31, 1978. He was not a candidate for reelection in 1978 to the Ninety-sixth Congress. He died in Wichita, Kansas, on September 11, 2000. He was interred at Old Mission Cemetery, Wichita, Kansas.

References

• United States Congress. "Joe Skubitz (id: S000472)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 
• Joe Skubitz at Find a Grave

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http://bioguide.congress.gov.

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas
1st district	Phillips Anderson Morrill Broderick Curtis Anthony Lambertson Cole H. Miller Avery Dole Sebelius Roberts Moran Huelskamp Marshall (elect)
2nd district	Goodin Haskell Funston H. Moore O. Miller M. Peters Bowersock Scott Mitchell Taggart E. Little Guyer C. Little Guyer Scrivner George Ellsworth Avery Mize Roy Keys Jeffries Slattery Brownback Ryun Boyda Jenkins
3rd district	Brown Ryan Perkins Clover Hudson Kirkpatrick Ridgely A. Jackson Campbell Sproul McGugin Patterson Winter Meyer George Hargis McVey Ellsworth Winn Meyers Snowbarger D. Moore Yoder
4th district	Ryan Kelley Otis Curtis J. Miller F. Jackson Doolittle Hoch Carpenter E. Rees Shriver Glickman Tiahrt Pompeo
5th district	Anderson Davis Calderhead Vincent Calderhead R. Rees Helvering Strong Ayres Houston Hope Breeding Skubitz Whittaker Nichols
6th district	Hanback Turner Baker McCormick Reeder Young Connelly White Sparks McCarthy Carlson Smith Dole
7th district	S. Peters Simpson Long Simpson Long Murdock Madison Neeley Shouse Tincher Hope
8th district	Murdock Ayres Bird Ayres
At-large	Conway Wilder Clarke Lowe (1873–1875: Lowe Cobb Phillips) (1883–1885: Hanback Morrill Perkins S. Peters) Harris Blue Botkin Bailey Scott
Territory	Whitfield Parrott