Andrew J. May

Andrew J. May

Andrew Jackson May (born June 24, 1875 in Langley , Floyd County , Kentucky , †  September 6, 1959 in Prestonsburg , Kentucky) was an American politician . Between 1931 and 1947 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Andrew May attended public schools in his home country. He then taught as a teacher himself for five years. After a subsequent law degree at Southern Normal University and his admission as a lawyer in 1898, he began to work in Prestonsburg in this profession. Between 1901 and 1909 he was a district attorney in Floyd County. In 1925 and 1926 he worked as a judge. He also worked in agriculture, banking, and coal mining.

Politically, May became a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1930 congressional elections , he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 10th constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded Katherine G. Langley on March 4, 1931 . Since his district has already been dissolved for the next election, May ran since 1932 in the seventh electoral district. After the successful election, he replaced Virgil Chapman on March 4, 1933 , who had represented this district in Congress until then . Since he was confirmed in the six following elections, May could remain in the US House of Representatives until January 3, 1947. He completed a total of eight legislative terms there between 1931 and 1947. Between 1939 and 1947 he was chairman of the military committee. During his time in Congress, the New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed there from 1933 . Since 1941, the work of the Congress has been determined by the events of the Second World War and its consequences.

In the 1946 elections he was defeated by the Republican Wendell H. Meade . Soon after, he hit the headlines for corruption in office. This involved bribery in connection with the award of contracts for the manufacture of ammunition during the war. May was convicted and spent nine months in prison. In 1952 he was pardoned by President Harry S. Truman . In the years that followed, until his death in 1959, May practiced law again.

Web links

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• Andrew J. May in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Andrew J. May in the database of Find a Grave (English)