Donald H. McLean

Donald H. McLean (1939)

Donald Holman McLean (born March 18, 1884 in Paterson , New Jersey , †  August 19, 1975 in Burlington , Vermont ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1933 and 1945 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Donald McLean attended public schools in his home country. Between 1897 and 1902 he served as a page in the US Senate ; from 1902 to 1911 he was secretary to the US Senator John Kean . After studying law at George Washington University and being admitted to the bar in 1909, he began working in this profession in Elizabeth . In New Jersey, he became a special master in chancery and state commissioner to the supreme court of his state. Between 1918 and 1923 he was an assistant district attorney in Union County .

Politically, McLean was a member of the Republican Party . In the 1932 congressional election he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of New Jersey , where he succeeded Randolph Perkins on March 4, 1933 . After five re-elections, he was able to complete six legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1945 . During his time in Congress, the New Deal laws of the federal government were passed there under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of World War II . In 1933 the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, repealing the 18th Amendment from 1919. It was about the prohibition law .

In 1944, McLean waived another congressional candidacy. After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, he served as a prosecutor in Union County in 1945 and 1946. He was then a judge on the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals until 1948 . In the following 20 years he practiced as a lawyer again. In 1968 McLean retired. He died in Burlington on August 19, 1975.

Web links

• Donald H. McLean in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Donald H. McLean in the database of Find a Grave (English)