John J. Cochran

John J. Cochran

John Joseph Cochran (born August 11, 1880 in Webster Groves , St. Louis County , Missouri , †  March 6, 1947 in St. Louis , Missouri) was an American politician . Between 1926 and 1947 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Cochran attended public schools in his home country and then worked for various newspapers in St. Louis. Between 1911 and 1913 he served on the St. Louis Municipal Electoral Committee. Between 1913 and 1917 and again from 1918 to 1921 he served as secretary to Congressman William L. Igoe . In between he worked in the same function for the US Senator William J. Stone in 1917 and 1918 . At that time he also worked for the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1921, he only worked in this profession on a small scale. From 1921 to 1926 he was employed by Congressman Harry B. Hawes .

Politically, Cochran was a member of the Democratic Party . After the resignation of Harry Hawes, who moved to the Senate, he was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , at the by-election due for the eleventh seat of Missouri , where he took up his new mandate on November 2, 1926 . After several re-elections, he was able to exercise his mandate in Congress until January 3, 1947. In 1934 he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for the Senate elections. From March 4, 1933, Cochran represented the thirteenth district of his state as the successor to Clyde Williams .

During his tenure in Congress between 1933 and 1941, most of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed there. In 1933 the 20th and 21st amendments were ratified. Since 1941, the work of the House of Representatives has also been shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. From 1931 to 1941 John Cochran was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments . Between 1939 and 1947 he also headed the Committee on Accounts . In 1946, Cochran renounced another congressional candidacy. He died in St. Louis on March 6, 1947, just two months after leaving Parliament.

Web links

• John J. Cochran in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John J. Cochran in the database of Find a Grave (English)