Dear Cleveland

Cleveland Dear (born August 22, 1888 in Sugartown , Beauregard Parish , Louisiana , †  December 30, 1950 in Alexandria , Louisiana) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1937 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Cleveland Dear attended the public schools of his home country and then studied until 1910 at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge . After completing a law degree at the same university and being admitted to the bar in 1914, he began to work in his new profession in Alexandria. During the First World War he was a first lieutenant in an artillery unit in the US Army . Between 1920 and 1933, Dear served as the district attorney in the Ninth Judicial District of Louisiana.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1932 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Louisiana , where he succeeded John H. Overton, who was moving to the Senate , on March 4, 1933 . After re-election in 1934, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1937 . During that time, many of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . From 1935 Dear was chairman of the first electoral committee ( Committee on Elections No. 1 ).

In 1936 he decided not to run again. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for gubernatorial elections . After leaving the US House of Representatives, Dear worked as a lawyer again. In 1941 he became a judge in the Ninth Judicial District of Louisiana. He held this office until his death on December 30, 1950 in Alexandria.

Web links

• Cleveland Dear in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Cleveland Dear in the database of Find a Grave (English)