Frederick H. Dominick

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Frederick H. Dominick (1920)

Frederick Haskell Dominick (born February 20, 1877 in Peak , Newberry County , South Carolina , †  March 11, 1960 in Newberry , South Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1917 and 1933 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Frederick Dominick attended Columbia public schools and then South Carolina College , now the University of South Carolina . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his admission as a lawyer in 1898, he began to work in Newberry in his new profession. Politically, Dominick was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1901 and 1902 he was a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina ; from 1906 to 1914 he was district chairman of his party. Between 1913 and 1916 he also served as the Assistant Attorney General of South Carolina. In 1920 and 1924 Dominick was a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions .

In the 1916 congressional election he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of South Carolina . There he took over from Wyatt Aiken on March 4, 1917 . After seven re-elections, he was able to complete eight consecutive terms in Congress by March 3, 1933 . During this time the First World War fell . In 1919 the 18th amendment was passed there and the 19th amendment in 1920 . It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage . In 1926, Frederick Dominick was one of the commissioned organizers of the impeachment trial against Federal Judge George W. English . In 1933, shortly before the end of his last legislative term, the 20th amendment to the Constitution was passed, bringing the terms of office of Congress and President forward from March to January.

During the Second World War he worked for the Ministry of Justice. After that, Dominick practiced as a lawyer again. He died in Newberry in March 1960.

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SURNAME Dominick, Frederick H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dominick, Frederick Haskell (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1877
PLACE OF BIRTH Peak , South Carolina
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1960
Place of death Newberry , South Carolina