Charles R. Farnsley

Charles R. Farnsley (1965)

Charles Rowland Peaslee Farnsley (born March 28, 1907 in Louisville , Kentucky , †  June 19, 1990 there ) was an American politician . Between 1965 and 1967 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Farnsley attended Male High School in Louisville and then studied law at the University of Louisville until 1930, among other things. After his admission as a lawyer in the same year, he began to work in this profession in his hometown. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1936 and 1940 he was an MP in the Kentucky House of Representatives . From 1948 to 1953 he served as mayor of Louisville. In 1952 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , where Adlai Stevenson was first nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the 1964 congressional election , Farnsley was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Kentucky , where he succeeded Republican Gene Snyder , whom he had defeated in the election, on January 3, 1965 . Since he refused to run again in 1966, Farnsley could only hold one term in Congress until January 3, 1967 . This time was determined by the discussions about the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement.

After serving in the US House of Representatives, Farnsley was the publisher and president of the Lost Cause Press. He died of Alzheimer's disease on June 19, 1990 in his native Louisville .

Web links

• Charles R. Farnsley in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles R. Farnsley in the database of Find a Grave (English)