Franck R. Havenner

Franck Roberts Havenner (born September 20, 1882 in Sherwood , Baltimore County , Maryland , †  July 24, 1967 in San Francisco , California ) was an American politician . Between 1937 and 1941 and again from 1945 to 1953, he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Franck Havenner attended the public schools in his home country and then studied at Columbian College , the later George Washington University in Washington, DC , and Stanford University in California. Between 1907 and 1917 he worked as a journalist in San Francisco. Politically, he was originally a member of the Republican Party . He later moved to the Progressive Party and then to the Democrats . From 1926 to 1936 he was a member of the San Francisco City Council (Board of Supervisors) .

In the 1936 congressional elections , Havenner was elected as a candidate for the Progressive Party in the fourth constituency of California in the US House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded Florence Prague Kahn on January 3, 1937 . After being re-elected as a Democrat, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1941 . During this time, the last New Deal laws of the federal government were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . In 1940 he was defeated by the Republican Thomas Rolph .

Between 1941 and 1944 Havenner was a member of the California Railroad Commission. In the elections of 1944 he was re-elected to Congress in the fourth district of his state, where he replaced Thomas Rolph on January 3, 1945. After three re-elections, he was able to spend four more terms in the US House of Representatives until January 3, 1953. During this time the end of the Second World War , the beginning of the Cold War and the Korean War fell . In the meantime Havenner was a member of the armed forces committee. In 1952 he was not re-elected.

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Franck Havenner worked for the American trade union movement AFL and was one of the directors of the Union Labor Party, which is closely related to this . He died in San Francisco on July 24, 1967.

Web links

• Franck R. Havenner in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Franck R. Havenner in the database of Find a Grave (English)