Paul Harold Todd, Jr. (September 22, 1921 – November 18, 2008) was a politician, soldier and business executive from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Todd was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the son of Paul H. Todd, mayor of Kalamazoo in 1937, and the grandson of Albert M. Todd, former U.S. Representative and the "Peppermint King" founder of the A.M. Todd Company. Paul Todd graduated from Beverly Hills High School, Beverly Hills, California in 1937. He r...
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Paul Harold Todd, Jr. (September 22, 1921 – November 18, 2008) was a politician, soldier and business executive from the U.S. state of Michigan.
Todd was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the son of Paul H. Todd, mayor of Kalamazoo in 1937, and the grandson of Albert M. Todd, former U.S. Representative and the "Peppermint King" founder of the A.M. Todd Company. Paul Todd graduated from Beverly Hills High School, Beverly Hills, California in 1937. He received a B.S. at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York in 1942. Todd served in the United States Army Signal Corps and the Office of Strategic Services from 1942 to 1945. He was founder of Kalamazoo Spice Extraction Co. (now known as Kalsec) in 1958.
In 1962, he unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Republican U.S. Representative August E. Johansen in Michigan's 3rd congressional district. In 1964, Todd defeated Johansen to be elected as a Democrat to the 89th Congress, serving from January 3, 1965 to January 3, 1967. He was known as one of the...
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