Andrew Edmiston

Andrew Edmiston Jr. (born November 13, 1892 in Weston , Lewis County , West Virginia , † August 28, 1966 there ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1943 he represented the third electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Andrew Edmiston attended Friends Select School in Washington , the Kentucky Military Institute in Lyndon, and then West Virginia University in Morgantown . Between 1915 and 1917 he worked in agriculture. During the First World War Edmiston was used as a lieutenant in the US Army . He was awarded numerous medals for his military achievements. After the war, Edmiston was editor of the Weston Democrat newspaper from 1920 to 1935. Since 1925 he was also involved in the manufacture of glass. He was a member of the Democratic Party and served as Mayor of Weston from 1924 to 1926. In 1928 and 1952 Edmiston was a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions . From 1928 to 1932 he was party chairman in West Virginia.

After the death of Congressman Lynn Hornor in 1933, he was elected his successor in the US House of Representatives in Washington in the necessary by-election in the third district of West Virginia. After several re-elections he could remain in Congress between November 28, 1933 and January 3, 1943 . It was during this period that most of the New Deal laws were passed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration . Since December 1941, the events of the Second World War were in the foreground. In the 1942 elections, Andrew Edmiston lost to Edward G. Rohrbough .

Between 1943 and 1945 he was head of the authority responsible for war manpower in West Virginia. Then he retired from politics and returned to his private business. Andrew Edmiston died on August 28, 1966 in his native Weston.

Web links

• Andrew Edmiston in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Andrew Edmiston in the database of Find a Grave (English)