Fernand St. Germain

Fernand St. Germain (1987)

Fernand Joseph St. Germain (born January 9, 1928 in Blackstone , Worcester County , Massachusetts , † August 16, 2014 in Newport , Rhode Island ) was an American politician . Between 1961 and 1989 he represented the first constituency of the state of Rhode Island in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Fernand St. Germain attended public schools in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. After high school (1945) and Providence College (1948), he studied law at Boston University until 1955 . In the meantime he was a soldier in the US Army from 1949 to 1952 . After his admission to the bar in 1956, he began practicing this profession in Rhode Island.

St. Germain became a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1952 and 1961 he was an MP in the Rhode Island House of Representatives . In 1960 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the first district of Rhode Island , where he succeeded Aime Forand on January 3, 1961 . He was confirmed in office in the 13 subsequent elections, so that he could complete a total of 14 legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1989 . Between 1981 and 1989 he was Chairman of the Banking and Finance Committee ( Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban affairs ). In this capacity, he was instrumental in the abolition of some security regulations for savings and the granting of loans. The elimination of these provisions was one of the reasons for subsequent financial crises.

In the 1988 elections, St. Germain was defeated by Republican Ronald Machtley . Then he withdrew from politics. Fernand St. Germain's last retirement was in Woonsocket.

Web links

• Fernand St. Germain in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Jes Bidgood: Fernand St Germain, Legislator Tied to S. & L. Crisis, Dies at 86th obituary in The New York Times, August 21, 2014

Individual evidence

1. ^ Former US Congressman from Woonsocket, St Germain, dies at 86