Earl W. Vincent

Earl W. Vincent (born March 27, 1886 in Keota , Washington County , Iowa , †  May 22, 1953 in Guthrie Center , Iowa) was an American politician . Between 1928 and 1929 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Earl Vincent attended his homeland public schools including Keota High School , which he graduated in 1904. He then studied at Monmouth College until 1909 . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and his admission to the bar in 1912, he began to practice in his new profession at Guthrie Center. Between 1919 and 1922 he was a district attorney in Guthrie County .

Vincent was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1923 and 1927 he was a member of the Iowa House of Representatives . After the resignation of Congressman William R. Green , he was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the due by-election in the ninth constituency of Iowa . There he ended his predecessor's legislative period between June 4, 1928 and March 3, 1929. For the regular congressional elections of 1928 Vincent was no longer nominated by his party.

In 1930 Vincent was a delegate to the Iowa Regional Republican Convention. He returned to practice in the years that followed before becoming a judge in the Fifth Judicial District of Iowa in February 1945. He held this office until his death on May 22, 1953.

Web links

• Earl W. Vincent in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Earl W. Vincent in the database of Find a Grave (English)