My Six Passages - Part IV: Life After Fifty

Mr. Hollrah is a native of St. Charles, Missouri. He holds a B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri and is past-President of the Civil Engineering Academy of Distinguished Alumni. From 1962-70 he served as a Senior Project Engineer for Cities Service Oil Company (CITGO) and the Sun Oil Company (Sunoco) in New York and Tulsa. From 1970-84 he served as Director of State Relations for the Sun Oil Company, in Philadelphia, with responsibility for legislative and regulatory liaison with the fifty state governments. He is a founder and former director of the State Governmental Affairs Council; a former member of the General Committee on State Relations, American Petroleum Institute; a former member of the Business Advisory Board, American Legislative Exchange Council, a former chairman of the Board of Trustees of the State Legislative Policy Institute, National Center for Legislative Research; and a former member of the Board of Trustees, Congress of Small Cities of Russia. He has served the Republican Party as a County Chairman, State Committee Member, and as a State and National Convention Delegate. In 1986-87 he served as deputy campaign manager in the presidential exploratory committee of former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. In 2000 and in 2004 he served as a Bush-Cheney Elector in the U.S. Electoral College. In 1975, Mr. Hollrah created and registered the first political action committee (SunPAC) with the Federal Election Commission. He was also the principal founder and a former steering committee member of the National Republican Legislative Campaign Committee, Republican National Committee. Since retiring in 1984, he has worked as a consultant both in the U.S. and in Russia, bringing Russia’s unique technological developments to the U.S. and working on humanitarian aid projects in Moscow and Siberia. In 1997 he served as a senior consultant to the Alliance for American Innovation, Washington, DC, playing a pivotal role in defeating a multi-national political attack on the U.S. patent system. He has published a frontier history (1765-1885) of St. Charles County, Missouri, the jumping-off point for the Lewis & Clark Expedition. He currently writes a weekly political column as a Contributing Editor for the National Writers Syndicate, the New Media Journal, and the OrderofEphors.com blog site. He is also the co-author of Bush’s Legs, the story of religious renaissance in post-Cold War Russia.