Charles L. Gifford

Charles L. Gifford

Charles Laceille Gifford (born March 15, 1871 in Cotuit , Barnstable County , Massachusetts , †  August 23, 1947 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1922 and 1947 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Gifford attended public schools in his home country. Between 1890 and 1900 he worked as a teacher in the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut . He then got into the real estate business in Cape Cod . Later he also traded in cranberries and oysters. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1912 and 1913 ; from 1914 to 1919 he was a member of the State Senate .

After the resignation of MP Joseph Walsh , Gifford was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due for the 16th seat of Massachusetts , where he took up his new mandate on November 7, 1922. After twelve re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on August 23, 1947 . Since 1933 the New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed there; from 1941 the work of the congress was shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. From 1933 to 1943 Gifford represented the 15th and from 1943 as successor to Thomas H. Eliot the ninth constituency of his state. From 1925 to 1929 he was chairman of the third electoral committee; from 1929 to 1931 he headed the committee to oversee presidential and congressional elections.

Web links

• Charles L. Gifford in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)