Robert Kean

Robert Winthrop Kean (born September 28, 1893 in Elberon , Monmouth County , New Jersey , †  September 21, 1980 in Livingston , New Jersey) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1959 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Kean came from a well-known family of politicians. His great-great-grandfather John Kean (1756–1795) was a delegate to the Continental Congress . His uncle was US Senator John Kean (1852-1914); his father Hamilton Fish Kean (1862–1941) was also a member of the Senate. Robert Kean attended St. Mark's School in Southboro ( Massachusetts ) until 1911 . He then studied at Harvard University until 1915 . From 1915 to 1917 he was a bank clerk in Carteret and New York City . In 1916 he served as a member of the New York National Guard during a border conflict with Mexico . During the First World War he was a first lieutenant in the US Army . For his military achievements he was awarded the Silver Star and the Distinguished Service Cross . Between 1920 and 1969, in addition to his political work in Livingston, Newark and New York City , Kean was active in the investment industry and in the banking industry. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1936, 1960 and 1964 he was a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions .

In the congressional elections of 1938, Kean was in the twelfth constituency of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC chosen, where he succeeded the on January 3rd, 1939 Democrats Frank W. Towey took. After nine re-elections, he was able to complete ten legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1959 . Further New Deal laws were passed there by the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt by 1941 . Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. Afterwards, Kean experienced the beginning of the Cold War , the Korean War and domestically the civil rights movement as a member of parliament .

In 1958, Kean renounced another candidacy for the US House of Representatives. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the Senate. After his tenure in Congress ended, he continued his previous activities. From 1959 to 1961 he was chairman of a presidential advisory committee ( National Advisory Committees of the White House Conference ). He was also from 1959 to 1962 Republican party chairman in Essex County . Robert Kean spent his old age in Livingston, where he died on September 21, 1980.

Web links

• Robert Kean in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Robert Kean in the database of Find a Grave (English)