Beverly M. Vincent

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Beverly Mills Vincent (born March 28, 1890 in Brownsville , Edmonson County , Kentucky , †  August 15, 1980 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1937 and 1945 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Beverly Vincent attended his homeland public schools and then the Western Kentucky State Teachers College at Bowling Green . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Kentucky at Lexington and his admission to the bar in 1915, he began to work in Brownsville in this profession. In 1916, he became a district judge in Edmonson County. Between August 1918 and January 1919 he was during the final stages of World War I soldier of the United States Army . Vincent served as the Assistant Attorney General of Kentucky from 1919 to 1920 . Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1929 and 1933 he was a member of the Kentucky Senate . In 1932 he was one of the Democratic electors who officially voted Franklin D. Roosevelt president . From 1936 to 1937 he was Attorney General of Kentucky.

After the death of MP Glover H. Cary , Vincent was elected in the second constituency of his state as his successor in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on March 2, 1937. Since he was confirmed in the following three regular elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1945 . First of all, further New Deal laws were passed there. Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of World War II .

In 1944 Vincent refused to run again. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again and worked in agriculture. In 1960 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles , where John F. Kennedy was nominated as a presidential candidate. Beverly Vincent died on August 15, 1980 in his birthplace in Brownsville at the age of 90.

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SURNAME Vincent, Beverly M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vincent, Beverly Mills (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Brownsville , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH August 15, 1980
Place of death Brownsville , Kentucky