Joseph W. Byrns junior

Joseph W. Byrns (1939)

Joseph Wellington Byrns Jr. (born August 15, 1903 in Nashville , Tennessee , †  March 8, 1973 in Daytona Beach , Florida ) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1941 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph Byrns was the son of Joseph W. Byrns Sr. (1869-1936), who sat from 1909 to 1936 for the state of Tennessee in Congress and was temporarily speaker of the House of Representatives . The younger Byrns attended public schools in his home country and then, until 1922, the Emerson Institute in Washington . After completing a law degree at Vanderbilt University and being admitted to the bar in 1928, he began working in his new profession in Nashville. Between 1930 and 1938 he was a captain in the reserve of the Air Corps. Politically, Byrns was a member of the Democratic Party .

In the 1938 congressional election , Byrns was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded Richard Merrill Atkinson on January 3, 1939 . Since he was not confirmed in 1940, he could only complete one term in Congress until January 3, 1941. During this time, the last New Deal laws of the federal government were passed there.

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Byrns returned to work as a lawyer. During the Second World War , he served in the US Army between 1942 and 1945 . He was used on the European theater of war. Joseph Byrns spent the rest of his life in Daytona Beach, where he died on March 8, 1973.

Web links

• Joseph W. Byrns in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joseph W. Byrns in the database of Find a Grave (English)