Bolivar E. Kemp

Bolivar E. Kemp

Bolivar Edwards Kemp (born December 28, 1871 in Amite , Louisiana , †  June 19, 1933 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1925 and 1933 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Bolivar Kemp attended both private and public schools in his home country. He then studied at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge . After a subsequent law degree at Tulane University in New Orleans and his admission to the bar in 1897, he began to work in this profession in Amite. He also worked in agriculture and freight forwarding as well as in the banking industry. From 1910 he was a board member of Louisiana State University.

Politically, Kemp was a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1924 congressional elections he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Louisiana , where he succeeded George K. Favrot on March 4, 1925 . After four re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on June 19, 1933 . From March 4, 1933 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with the administration of the American territories.

Political turmoil broke out over his successor in Louisiana in the following months. Governor Oscar K. Allen tried to push through the election of Kemp's widow Lallie. However, this met with determined resistance within the Democratic Party. There they supported Jared Y. Sanders . After both candidates were proposed to Congress as successors to Kemp after each controversial election, the latter ordered new by-elections, in which Lallie Kemp then renounced a candidacy. The election was then won by Sanders, who was able to take his seat in the House of Representatives on May 1, 1934.

Web links

• Bolivar E. Kemp in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Bolivar E. Kemp in the database of Find a Grave (English)