George R. Durgan

George Richard Durgan (born January 20, 1872 in West Point , Tippecanoe County , Indiana , †  January 13, 1942 in Indianapolis , Marion County , Indiana) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1935 he represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Durgan attended the public schools in his home country and moved to Lafayette in 1892 . There he worked first as an employee and then as a traveling dealer. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1904 and 1913 and again from 1917 to 1925 he was mayor of Lafayette. In 1912 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore , where Woodrow Wilson was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the 1932 congressional election , Durgan was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Indiana , where he succeeded Arthur H. Greenwood on March 4, 1933 . Since he lost to Charles A. Halleck of the Republican Party in 1935, he was only able to complete one term in Congress until January 3, 1935 . During this time, the federal government's first New Deal laws were passed. In 1933, the 18th Amendment from 1919 was repealed with the 21st amendment to the Constitution . It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages.

After resigning from the US House of Representatives, George Durgan resumed his previous activities. Since 1941 he was a member of the Indiana Services Commission. He died in Indianapolis on January 13, 1942 and was buried in Lafayette.

Web links

• George R. Durgan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George R. Durgan in the database of Find a Grave (English)