Edward W. Creal

Edward W. Creal

Edward Wester Creal (born November 20, 1883 in Mount Sherman , LaRue County , Kentucky , †  October 13, 1943 in Hodgenville , Kentucky) was an American politician . Between 1935 and 1943 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edward Creal attended public schools in his homeland. He then worked as a teacher in LaRue County for nine years. In his spare time and during vacations, he continued his own education at Southern Normal School at Bowling Green and East Lynn College in Buffalo . After studying law at Center College in Danville and being admitted to the bar, he began to work in this profession from 1910 in Hodgenville. Between 1910 and 1918, Creal also served as a school council in LaRue County; from 1918 to 1936 he worked in various positions as a public prosecutor. From 1918 until his death, he published a weekly newspaper in Hodgenville.

Politically, Creal was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1924 and 1940 he sat on their state board in Kentucky. After the death of MP Cap R. Carden in 1935, he was elected in the fourth constituency of Kentucky as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on November 5, 1935. After he was confirmed in each of the following regular elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on October 13, 1943 . In the first few years, further New Deal laws were passed there by the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . After that, the events of World War II also determined the work of the US House of Representatives.

Edward Creal died in Hodgenville and was buried there.

Web links

• Edward W. Creal in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edward W. Creal in the database of Find a Grave (English)