B. Frank Whelchel

Benjamin Frank Whelchel (born December 16, 1895 near Gainesville , Georgia , †  May 11, 1954 ) was an American politician . Between 1935 and 1945 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Frank Whelchel attended public schools in his home country. After completing a law degree and being admitted to the bar in 1925, he began working in his new profession in Gainesville. Between 1932 and 1934 he was a Hall County judge .

Politically, Whelchel was a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1934 congressional election , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the ninth constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded John Stephens Wood on January 3, 1935 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1945 . It was there that most of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt by 1941 . Since the American entry into World War II as a result of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the work of Congress has also been shaped by the events of that war.

In 1944 Whelchel renounced another candidacy for the US House of Representatives. There his predecessor Wood took over his old mandate again, who also became his successor. In the following years Frank Whelchel worked as a lawyer. He died on May 11, 1954 in Gainesville and was buried in Atlanta .

Web links

• B. Frank Whelchel in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• B. Frank Whelchel in the database of Find a Grave (English)