Peter H. Dominick
[1] Dominick then joined the United States Army Air Corps as an aviation cadet at the outset of American fighting in World War II.In 1960, he made a successful run for the United States House of Representatives, defeating incumbent freshman Democrat Byron L. Johnson, and he abandoned his law career in 1961.After a single term in the House of Representatives, Dominick was elected to the United States Senate, defeating one-term incumbent Democrat John A. Carroll, 53.6% to 45.6%."[10] After leaving the Senate at the end of his term in 1975, he was appointed Ambassador to Switzerland by President Gerald Ford, but served only briefly.Chronicling his flying "The Hump", the journal was discovered by his children and published by youngest son, Alexander Dominick, in 2018.