George H. Combs

George H. Combs (1927)

George Hamilton Combs Jr. (born May 2, 1899 in Kansas City , Missouri , †  November 29, 1977 in West Palm Beach , Florida ) was an American politician . Between 1927 and 1929 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Combs attended public schools in his home country and then studied at the University of Missouri at Columbia and the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor . During the final stages of World War I , he served in the US Navy in 1918 . After a subsequent law degree at the Kansas City Law School and his admission as a lawyer in 1921, he began to work in Kansas City in this profession. Between 1922 and 1924 he was the assistant prosecutor in Jackson County .

Politically, Combs was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1924 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress . In the congressional elections of 1926 he was then elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Republican Edgar C. Ellis on March 4, 1927 . Since he refused to run again in 1928, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1929.

In 1928, Combs was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Houston , where Al Smith was nominated as a presidential candidate. After leaving the US House of Representatives in 1929, he moved to New York City , where he practiced as a lawyer. In 1931 he worked for the New York State Department of Justice . In 1933 and 1934 he served as a lawyer for the Triborough Bridge Authority . He then served from 1934 to 1936 as an advisor to a commission that analyzed the public utilities of New York State. In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt named Combs head of the National Emergency Council for New York State.

Between 1937 and 1951, Combs worked primarily as a journalist. He was a radio reporter, war correspondent and article writer. From 1952 to 1961 he worked as a news commentator on both radio and television. From 1961 to 1971 he was a UN correspondent for Mutual Broadcasting System . George Combs held his last public office in 1951 and 1952 as a special federal attorney for the Price Stability Agency in southern New York State. He died on November 29, 1977 in West Palm Beach.

Web links

• George H. Combs in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)