Denver S. Church

Denver S. Church

Denver Samuel Church (born December 11, 1862 in Folsom City , California , †  February 21, 1952 in Fresno , California) was an American politician . Between 1913 and 1919 and again from 1933 to 1935 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Denver Church attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1885 Healdsburg College . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1893, he began to work in Fresno in this profession. Between 1907 and 1913 he was a district attorney in Fresno County . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1916 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis , where President Woodrow Wilson was nominated for re-election. In the 1912 congressional election , Church in the seventh constituency of California was elected to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded William Stephens on March 4, 1913 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1919 . During this time the First World War fell . In 1918 he renounced another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Church practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1924 and 1930 he was a judge in Fresno County. In the congressional elections of 1932 Church was re-elected to Congress in the ninth district of his state, where he replaced William E. Evans on March 4, 1933 . Since he refused to run again in 1934, he was only able to serve one term in Congress until January 3, 1935. It was during this time that the first of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . After his final resignation from the US House of Representatives, Denver Church worked again as a lawyer. He died in Fresno on February 21, 1952 at the age of 89.

Web links

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• Denver S. Church in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Denver S. Church in the database of Find a Grave (English)