Frank Eugene Hook

Frank Eugene Hook

Frank Eugene Hook (born May 26, 1893 in L'Anse , Baraga County , Michigan , †  June 21, 1982 in Edina , Minnesota ) was an American politician . Between 1935 and 1947 he represented the state of Michigan twice in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Frank Hook attended L'Anse High School until 1912 and then studied at the University of Detroit Law School . He then continued his law degree at Valparaiso University in Indiana until 1918 . Between July 1918 and February 1919, he served in the final stages of the First World War in an infantry unit in the US Army . Between 1919 and 1924, Hook was involved in both the timber business and iron mining. At the same time he was in Wakefield legal officer ( Law Clerk ). From 1921 to 1923, Hook also served on the county council in Gogebic County . After his official admission as a lawyer, he began to practice in his new profession from 1924 in Wakefield. In 1936 he was also admitted to the bar at the Supreme Court and was thus able to represent cases there. In 1924 and 1925, Hook also served as a municipal judge in Wakefield. In 1925 he moved his residence and his office to Ironwood . From 1930 to 1933 he headed the radio station WJMS there .

Politically, Hook was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1936 and 1948 he was a delegate to all Democratic National Conventions , at which Franklin D. Roosevelt and later Harry S. Truman were nominated as presidential candidates. In the 1934 congressional election , Hook was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the twelfth constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Republican W. Frank James on January 3, 1935 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1943 . There, further New Deal laws were passed by the federal government by 1941 . After that, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of World War II .

In the 1942 elections, Frank Hook was defeated by Republican John B. Bennett , whom he had defeated in 1938 and 1940. In 1943 and 1944, Hook was a member of the President-appointed Fair Employment Practices Committee . In 1944 he was able to regain his mandate from Bennett and between January 3, 1945 and January 3, 1947, he was able to spend another term in Congress. During this time the Second World War ended. In 1946 he lost again in the congressional election to Bennett, who was thus elected for the second time as his successor. Hook was a supporter of the New Deal, particularly campaigning for social security laws and minimum wages.

In 1948, Frank Hook ran for the US Senate without success . Between 1954 and 1966 he made several unsuccessful attempts to be re-elected to Congress, some of which failed in the primary . Hook was a member of the Motor Carrier Claims Commission in 1949 and 1950 . Since 1953 he worked as a lawyer in Detroit . He later moved the firm to Ironwood. Since 1962 he also practiced in the state of Wisconsin . Frank Hook spent his old age in Edina, where he died on June 21, 1982.

Web links

• Frank Eugene Hook in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Frank Eugene Hook in the database of Find a Grave (English)