Joseph Rosier

Joseph Rosier

Joseph Rosier (* 24. January 1870 in Wilson Castle , Harrison County , West Virginia ; †  7. October 1951 in Fairmont , West Virginia) was an American politician of the Democratic Party , of the State of West Virginia in the US Senate represented.

Life

After attending public schools, Joseph Rosier graduated from Salem College . He worked as a teacher at a village school in Bristol ; later he worked as the headmaster in Salem. Between 1893 and 1894 he served as a superintendent of schools in Harrison County. He was on the faculty of Salem College from 1894 to 1896. Other stops in his professional career were the normal school in Glenville from 1896 to 1897 and the State Teachers College in Fairmont from 1897 to 1900. From 1900 to 1915 he held the post of High School Board of Fairmont before he was appointed President of Fairmont State College became what it remained until 1945.

Public offices

During World War I, Rosier was the food administrator in his county between 1917 and 1918 . From 1933 to 1937 he was an advisor to the Works Progress Administration .

His brief political career began on January 13, 1941 when he was appointed to the US Senate . Rosier succeeded the resigned Matthew M. Neely . He only took the oath of office on May 13 of the same year after the Senate rejected an objection to his appeal. The election as successor to Neely's entire remaining term he lost to Republican Hugh Ike Shott , so that his time in the Senate ended on November 17, 1942.

Rosier made a brief return to politics in 1946 when he was elected to the West Virginia House of Representatives.

Web links

• Joseph Rosier in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)