Bird J. Vincent

Bird J. Vincent

Bird J. Vincent (born March 6, 1880 in Clarkston , Michigan , †  July 18, 1931 on board a ship between Hawaii and California ) was an American politician . From 1923 to 1931 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Bird Vincent attended the public schools of his home country and then the Ferris Institute . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and his admission as a lawyer in 1905, he began to work in Saginaw in his new profession. From 1909 to 1914 he was the assistant prosecutor in Saginaw County . He then became the first public prosecutor in the district. He held this post until 1917. During the First World War , he served as a first lieutenant in the US Army for ten months in France . After returning home, he was a trial lawyer for the city of Saginaw from 1919 to 1923.

Politically, Vincent was a member of the Republican Party . In the 1922 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Joseph W. Fordney on March 4, 1923 . After four re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death . From 1925 to 1931 he was chairman of the Committee on Elections No. 2 . Bird Vincent died of a heart attack on July 18, 1931, aboard the Navy transport ship USS Henderson on the return journey from Honolulu to San Francisco . He was buried in Saginaw. After a by-election, his mandate fell to the Democrat Michael J. Hart .

Web links

• Bird J. Vincent in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Bird J. Vincent in the database of Find a Grave (English)