Guy Cordon

Guy Cordon

Guy F. Cordon (born April 24, 1890 in Cuero , Texas , †  June 8, 1969 in Washington DC ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Oregon in the US Senate .

As a young boy, Guy Cordon moved with his parents from Texas in 1896. The family settled in Roseburg in southwest Oregon, where the young Guy attended public schools. In 1909, at the age of 19, he entered the service of Douglas County : Until 1914, he was deputy tax assessor there . That year he married Ana Allen, with whom he had two children. After the United States entered World War I , Cordon joined the US Army and fought in an artillery unit .

After he returned from the war, Guy Cordon worked as a tax assessor for his county until 1919 . He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1920. From 1923 to 1935 he was a district attorney in Douglas County, after which he ran a private law firm in Roseburg. He represented, among other things, 18 counties that had come together in a lawsuit against the federal government for allegedly illegal land assignments to the Oregon and California Railroad at the beginning of the 20th century.

On March 4, 1944, Cordon was appointed by Oregon Governor Earl Snell to succeed the late US Senator Charles L. McNary . In the by-election in November of the same year, he prevailed with 57 percent of the vote against the Democrat Willis Mahoney; He also voted for his own six-year term in 1948 with 60 percent of the vote. In 1954 he then suffered a narrow defeat against the Democrat Richard L. Neuberger in the federal trend of the Republicans , whereupon he left the Senate on January 3, 1955.

After the end of his political career, Guy Cordon stayed in Washington and practiced as a lawyer there until he retired in 1962.

Web links

• Guy Cordon in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Guy Cordon in the database of Find a Grave (English)