Fritz G. Lanham

Fritz G. Lanham

Frederick Garland "Fritz" Lanham (born January 3, 1880 in Weatherford , Parker County , Texas , †  July 31, 1965 in Austin , Texas) was an American politician . Between 1919 and 1947 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Fritz Lanham was the son of Governor Samuel WT Lanham (1846-1908), who also sat for Texas in Congress . He attended public schools in Washington, DC and then Weatherford College until 1897 . He then continued his education until 1898 at Vanderbilt University and then until 1900 at the University of Texas at Austin. After a subsequent law degree at the University of Texas and his admission as a lawyer in 1909, he began to work in Weatherford in this profession. In 1917 he moved to Fort Worth . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

After the resignation of MP James Clifton Wilson , Lanham was elected in the by-election for the twelfth seat of Texas as his successor in the US House of Representatives in Washington, where he took up his new mandate on April 19, 1919. After 13 re-elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1947 . From 1931 he was chairman of the committee for the management of public properties. From 1933, the New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed in Congress, and since 1941 the work of Congress has been shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences.

In 1946 Lanham declined to run again. After his time in the US House of Representatives, he worked as a government advisor in Washington until 1961. He then moved to Austin, where he died on July 31, 1965.

Web links

• Fritz G. Lanham in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Fritz G. Lanham in the database of Find a Grave (English)