Francis H. Case

Francis H. Case

Francis Higbee Case (born December 9, 1896 in Everly , Clay County , Iowa , † June 22, 1962 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American politician .

Life

Francis Case came in 1909, at the age of 13, with his parents to South Dakota , where he worked in Sturgis ( Meade County spent the rest of his childhood and youth). In 1918 he graduated from Dakota Wesleyan University , which was followed two years later, in 1920, by his graduation from Northwestern University in the state of Illinois . During World War I , Case served in both the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps .

Case began his professional career as an editor for various daily newspapers; so initially from 1920 to 1922 at the Epworth Herald in Chicago . Other jobs followed in South Dakota; at the Daily Journal in Rapid City from 1922 to 1925, at the Hot Springs Star in Hot Springs between 1925 and 1931 and most recently from 1931 to 1946 at the Custer Chronicle in Custer .

In 1934, the Republican Case ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives for the first time , but was initially defeated by his Democratic opponent Theodore B. Werner . It was not until two years later, in 1936, when Case was campaigning again, that he managed to win against Werner. He moved to Congress in Washington, DC on January 3, 1937 , where he was able to defend his seat in parliament for 14 years until January 3, 1951. In 1950, Case ran for a seat in the United States Senate . He was able to defeat Republican incumbent John Chandler Gurney in the primary elections and win the fall of the same year. Case moved into the second chamber of parliament on January 3, 1951, where he was re-elected in 1956.

Just months before his second term could have ended, Senator Case suffered a heart attack while working in the Capitol in June 1962 . He was taken to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, but died there at the age of 65.

Today, Lake Francis Case on the Missouri River in South Dakota is named in honor of the US Senator. A bridge that crosses Interstate 395 in the federal capital, Washington, was named after him. The same applies to Case Island in Antarctica.

Web links

• Francis H. Case in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)