Carroll L. Beedy

Carroll L. Beedy

Carroll Lynwood Beedy (born August 3, 1880 in Phillips , Franklin County , Maine , †  August 30, 1947 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1921 and 1935 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Carroll Beedy attended Lewiston public schools . There he graduated from Bates College in 1903 . After a subsequent law degree at Yale University and his admission as a lawyer in 1906, he began to work in Portland in his new profession. Between 1917 and 1921 Beedy was a district attorney in Cumberland County .

Beedy was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional election of 1920 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the first constituency of Maine. There he took over on March 4, 1921, to succeed Louis B. Goodall , who had no longer stood as a candidate. After six re-elections, Beedy was able to complete a total of seven consecutive terms in Congress by January 3, 1935 . Between 1923 and 1927 he was chairman of the Committee on Mileage . He was also a member of the Ministry of Labor's Expenditure Control Committee from 1925 to 1927. Between 1927 and 1931 Beedy was also a member of the Committee on Elections No. 1 at.

During his time in the US House of Representatives, the 20th and 21st amendments to the Constitution were discussed and passed there in 1933 . It was about changing the terms of office of President and Congress and about the lifting of the alcohol ban of 1919. His last years in the House of Representatives were determined by the global economic crisis . In the 1934 election, Beedy was defeated by the Democrat Simon M. Hamlin . After leaving Congress, Beedy worked as a lawyer in Washington. He died there on August 30, 1947.

Web links

• Carroll L. Beedy in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Carroll L. Beedy in the database of Find a Grave (English)