Elton Watkins

Elton Watkins (born July 6, 1881 in Newton , Newton County , Mississippi , † June 24, 1956 in Portland , Oregon ) was an American politician . Between 1923 and 1925 he represented the third constituency of the state of Oregon in the US House of Representatives .

Professional career

Elton Watkins attended the common schools in Mississippi and then the Webb School in Bell Buckle ( Tennessee ). He then studied until 1910 at Washington and Lee University in Lexington . With a law degree at the law school of George Washington University in Washington , he completed his training in 1912. During his student days in Washington, he worked part-time for the FBI , which was then still called the Bureau of Investigation .

In 1912 he moved to Portland, Oregon, where he worked as a lawyer. Between 1914 and 1918 he was employed as a prosecutor with the Oregon Bar Association. During the First World War he worked again for the Bureau of Investigation . In 1919 he became assistant federal attorney for Oregon.

politics

Watkins was a member of the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1922 he was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he replaced Clifton N. McArthur on March 4, 1923 . Since he was not re-elected in the next election, however, he could only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1925 .

In 1930 and 1932 he ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the US Senate , but in 1932 he was already defeated in the primary elections of his party. Also in 1932 and again in 1940 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Mayor of Portland.

Elton Watkins died in Portland in June 1956, where he was also buried. Since 1918 he was married to Daniela Ruth Sturgis, with whom he had two children.

Web links

• Elton Watkins in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Elton Watkins in the database of Find a Grave (English)