James F. Fulbright

James Franklin Fulbright (born January 24, 1877 in Millersville , Cape Girardeau County , Missouri , †  April 5, 1948 in Springfield , Missouri) was an American politician . Between 1923 and 1933 he represented the state of Missouri three times in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Fulbright attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1900 the State Normal School in Cape Girardeau . In the following years he worked as a teacher in his home country. After studying law at the Washington Law School in St. Louis and his admission to the bar in 1903, he began to work in this profession in Doniphan in 1904 . Between 1906 and 1912 he served as the district attorney in Ripley County . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1913 and 1919 Fulbright was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives ; since 1915 he was its president. From 1919 to 1921 he was mayor of Doniphan. In 1928 he attended the Democratic National Convention in Houston , where Al Smith was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the 1922 congressional elections , Fulbright was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 14th  constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Edward D. Hays on March 4, 1923 . Until March 3, 1925, he could initially only complete one legislative period in Congress . In 1924 he was defeated by the Republican Ralph Emerson Bailey , whom he replaced on March 4, 1927 after an election victory in 1926. This allowed James Fulbright to spend a second term in Congress between 1927 and 1929. In 1928 he lost to Republican Dewey Jackson Short . After another election victory in the congressional elections in 1930 , Fulbright was able to replace Short on March 4, 1931 and complete a last legislative period in the US House of Representatives until March 3, 1933. Since his constituency was dissolved that year, he ran unsuccessfully in another district in 1932 to nominate his party for the congressional elections.

After leaving the US House of Representatives, James Fulbright practiced law again. In 1936 he chaired the Missouri regional Democratic Party conference. Between 1937 and his death on April 5, 1948, he was a judge on the Springfield Court of Appeals.

Web links

• James F. Fulbright in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• James F. Fulbright in the database of Find a Grave (English)