Charles B. Hoeven

Charles B. Hoeven, 1963

Charles Bernard Hoeven (born March 30, 1895 in Hospers , Sioux County , Iowa , † November 9, 1980 in Orange City , Iowa) was an American politician . Between 1943 and 1965 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Hoeven attended the public schools in his home country and Alton High School . He interrupted his training to take part in the First World War as a soldier . He was deployed in England and France, first with an infantry unit and then with the intelligence service. After the war he continued his education until 1920 with a study at the University of Iowa . After completing a law degree at the same university and being admitted to the bar in 1922, he began to practice his new profession in Alton . Between 1925 and 1937 he was a district attorney in Sioux County.

Politically, Hoeven was a member of the Republican Party . He served in the Iowa Senate between 1937 and 1941 ; since 1939 he was its acting president. In 1940 he ran unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the congressional elections. Between 1925 and 1970, Hoeven was a delegate to all regional Republican party conventions in Iowa. In 1940 he was president of the then regional party convention. In 1942 he chaired the Republican State Judicial Convention in Iowa .

In 1942 Hoeven was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Iowa , where he succeeded Fred C. Gilchrist on January 3, 1943 . After ten re-elections, he was able to complete a total of eleven legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1965 . Since his eighth constituency was dissolved in 1962, he represented the sixth district of Iowa between 1963 and 1965 as the successor to Merwin Coad . In 1964 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in San Francisco , where Barry Goldwater was nominated as a presidential candidate. During his long tenure in Congress, World War II ended . The Korean War , the beginning of the Cold War and the Vietnam War also fell during this period . Domestically, the civil rights movement was the focus of interest. During his time in the House of Representatives, the 22nd , 23rd and 24th Amendment to the Constitution were discussed and passed.

In 1964 Hoeven decided not to run again. Until 1970 he continued to attend party congresses in Iowa as a delegate. He was also vice president of a bank. Charles Hoeven spent his old age in Orange City, where he died in 1980. He was buried in Alton.

Web links

• Charles B. Hoeven in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles B. Hoeven in the database of Find a Grave (English)