Albert M. Cole

Albert M. Cole (1949)

Albert McDonald Cole (born October 13, 1901 in Moberly , Randolph County , Missouri , † June 5, 1994 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1945 and 1953 he represented the first constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Albert Cole came to Topeka in Kansas as early as 1909 . There he attended public schools. He then studied law at the University of Chicago until 1925 . After his admission to the bar in 1926, he began practicing his profession in Holton, Kansas. From 1927 to 1931 he was a district attorney in Jackson County ; between 1931 and 1943 he was chairman of the Holton School Board.

Cole was a member of the Republican Party . He was a member of the Kansas Senate from 1941 to 1945 . In 1944 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the first district of the state, where he succeeded William P. Lambertson on January 3, 1945 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four terms in Congress by January 3, 1953 . In the elections of 1952 he was defeated by the Democrat Howard Shultz Miller .

Between 1953 and 1959, Albert Cole served as the head of administration for the Housing and Home Finance Agency in Washington. From 1959 to 1970 he headed several companies, from 1967 to 1990 Cole worked as a lawyer in the federal capital. He died there in June 1994.

Web links

• Albert M. Cole in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Albert M. Cole in the database of Find a Grave (English)