John Glenn Gilligan, the Ohio Governor at the time, appointed Glenn to be the chairman of the Citizens Task Force on Environmental Protection in 1970. The task force was created to survey environmental problems in the state and released a report in 1971 detailing the issues. The meetings and the final report of the task force were major contributors to the formation of Ohio's Environmental Protection Agency. In 1973, President Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Richardson refused and resigned in protest, triggering the Saturday Night Massacre. Ohio Senator William Saxbe, elected in 1968, was
John O'Neill (Irish senator) death of Stephen O'Mara, finishing fifth behind P. J. Brady. John O'Neill (Irish senator) John O'Neill (died c.1 December 1941) was an Irish businessman who was an Irish Free State senator in 1925. He was formally independent, but took a pro-Cumann na nGaedheal line. In 1925 he was living in Delgany, County Wicklow, and described himself as a "cycle manufacturer and motor trader". He owned O'Neill Motors, a Dublin garage acquired in 1959 by Ryan's Car Hire. O'Neill served on several committees and commissions on industry and commerce. During the First World War he chaired the All-Ireland Munitions and Government