Jacob L. Milligan

Jacob L. Milligan

Jacob Le Roy Milligan (born March 9, 1889 in Richmond , Ray County , Missouri , †  March 9, 1951 in Kansas City , Missouri) was an American politician . Between 1920 and 1935 he represented the state of Missouri twice in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Jacob Milligan attended public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree at the University of Missouri at Columbia and his admission as a lawyer in 1913, he began to work in this profession from 1914 in his native Richmond. During the First World War he served between 1917 and 1919 as a captain in an infantry regiment in the US Army . For his military achievements in this war, he was awarded the Silver Star and the Purple Heart .

Politically, Milligan was a member of the Democratic Party . After the resignation of Representative Joshua W. Alexander , who took over the post of US Secretary of Commerce , he was elected as his successor in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he was held on February 14, at the by-election for the third Missouri seat In 1920 he took up his new mandate. Since Milligan in the regular congressional elections of 1920 the Republicans Henry F. Lawrence defeated, he could only the current legislative period in until March 3, 1921 Congress quit.

In the elections of 1922 Milligan was again elected to the US House of Representatives in the third constituency of his state, where he replaced Lawrence on March 4, 1923. After five re-elections, he could spend six full terms in Congress by January 3, 1935. Since 1933 he represented the fourth district of his home state as the successor to David W. Hopkins . In 1933 the 20th and 21st amendments were ratified. Since 1933, the first New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed in Congress. In 1928 Milligan was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Houston , where Al Smith was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In 1934 Jacob Milligan decided not to run again for the US House of Representatives. Instead, he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for the US Senate elections . This went to the later President Harry S. Truman . After leaving Congress, he returned to practice as a lawyer. In 1949 and 1950 he headed the Kansas City Police Committee. He also died there on March 9, 1951, his 72nd birthday.

Web links

• Jacob L. Milligan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Jacob L. Milligan in the database of Find a Grave (English)