Victor Murdock

Victor Murdock

Victor Murdock (born March 18, 1871 in Burlingame , Osage County , Kansas , † July 8, 1945 in Wichita , Kansas) was an American politician . Between 1903 and 1907 he represented the seventh and from 1907 to 1915 the eighth constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Victor Murdock came to Wichita with his parents as early as 1872. There he attended public schools and the Lewis Academy . He then began a career in the press. Until 1891 he worked as a reporter for the Wichita Eagle newspaper. Then he moved to Chicago , where he also worked as a newspaper reporter between 1891 and 1894. On his return to Wichita, he was executive editor of the Daily Eagle newspaper from 1894 to 1903 . From 1895 to 1897 he was also employed in the administration of an appeal court.

When Congressman Chester I. Long, re-elected in 1902, resigned his seat as a member of the US Senate , the Republican Murdock was elected as his successor in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC when the election was due in the seventh district of Kansas . In 1904 he was re-elected to that district. Since the elections in 1906 Murdock ran in the eighth district. Overall he was a member of Congress between May 26, 1903 and March 3, 1915 . During this time the 16th and 17th amendments to the Constitution were passed in Congress. These articles introduced nationwide income tax and direct election of senators. In 1914 Murdock declined to run again. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for nomination for the Senate elections.

Meanwhile Murdock had become a member of the short-lived Progressive Party founded by former US President Theodore Roosevelt . In 1915 and 1916 he was federal chairman of this party. In 1916 he worked as a war correspondent. Between 1917 and 1924 Murdock was a member of the Federal Trade Commission . From 1919 to 1923, with one exception in 1921, he was chairman of this commission. Then he withdrew from politics. But he published the newspaper The Wichita Eagle until his death in 1945 .

Web links

• Victor Murdock in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Victor Murdock in the database of Find a Grave (English)