Menalcus Lankford

Menalcus Lankford (born March 14, 1883 in Franklin , Virginia , †  December 27, 1937 in Norfolk , Virginia) was an American politician . Between 1929 and 1933 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Menalcus Lankford attended both public and private schools in his homeland including Norfolk High School . He then studied to 1904 at the University of Richmond . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his admission to the bar in 1906, he began to work in Norfolk in this profession. During the First World War he served in the Air Corps of the US Navy . Politically, he became a member of the Republican Party . In 1920 and 1924 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress .

In the 1928 congressional elections , Lankford was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Virginia , where he succeeded Joseph T. Deal on March 4, 1929 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1933. These were shaped by the events of the global economic crisis. In 1932 he was not re-elected. In 1932 and 1936 Lankford was a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions . Since 1933 he was responsible as a bankruptcy arbitrator on behalf of the federal government for the area around the city of Norfolk. He died on December 27, 1937 in Norfolk, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Menalcus Lankford in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)