Clifton A. Woodrum

Clifton A. Woodrum (1927)

Clifton Alexander Woodrum (born April 27, 1887 in Roanoke , Virginia , † October 6, 1950 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1923 and 1945 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Clifton Woodrum attended public schools in his home country and then studied medicine. He then worked as a pharmacist in Roanoke. After studying law at Washington and Lee University in Lexington and his admission to the bar in 1908, he began to work in this profession in his birthplace. Between 1917 and 1919 he also acted there as a public prosecutor and until 1922 as a judge. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

In the 1922 congressional election , Woodrum was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the sixth constituency of Virginia, where he succeeded James P. Woods on March 4, 1923 . After eleven re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on December 31, 1945 . The New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt have been passed there since 1933 . In 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were applied for the first time , according to which the legislative period of the Congress ends or begins on January 3rd. Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of World War II .

Woodrum's resignation came after his appointment as president of American Plant Food Council Inc. He died on October 6, 1950 in the federal capital Washington.

Web links

• Clifton A. Woodrum in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)