Frazier Reams

Henry Frazier Reams (born January 15, 1897 in Franklin , Tennessee , †  September 15, 1971 in Oakland , California ) was an American politician . Between 1951 and 1955 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Frazier Reams attended public schools in his home country. In the years 1918 and 1919 he served in an artillery unit of the US Army in the final phase of the First World War . In doing so, he made it to the lieutenant. After his military service, he studied at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville . After completing a law degree at Vanderbilt University Law School in Nashville and being admitted to the bar, he began working in this profession in Nashville. In 1922 he moved to Toledo , Ohio, where he also practiced as a lawyer from 1923. Politically, he joined the Democratic Party . In 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1944, 1948, and 1956 he participated as a delegate at the respective Democratic National Conventions . From 1933 to 1937 he was a Lucas County prosecutor . He led a campaign against the gangsters active there. He also investigated the conditions in the prisons in order to avoid preferential treatment of convicted gangsters. In 1936, Reams unsuccessfully sought the post of Attorney General of Ohio; in 1944 he failed in the gubernatorial election of his party.

After 1937 he worked again as a lawyer. He was also a member of the Toledo Port Commission between 1939 and 1945 . Between 1942 and 1944 he headed the tax office in Toledo and in 1945 and 1946 the welfare office of his state. Between 1937 and 1960 he was President and Treasurer of Community Broadcasting Co. Reams also worked in banking and was Curator of Bowling Green State University between 1948 and 1957 .

In the 1950 congressional election , Reams was elected as an independent candidate in the ninth constituency of Ohio to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Democrat Thomas Henry Burke on January 3, 1951 . After a re-election, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1955 . These were shaped by the events of the Korean War . In 1951 he was an American delegate to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg . Two years later he was also a delegate at a conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Washington. The following year he held the same function at the follow-up conference in Vienna .

In 1954 Frazier Reams was not re-elected as MP. After his time in the US House of Representatives, he worked as a lawyer again. From 1965 he was CEO of Reams Broadcasting Corp. He died on September 15, 1971 in Oakland and was buried in Toledo.

Web links

• Frazier Reams in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Frazier Reams in the database of Find a Grave (English)