Guy Gillette

Guy Gillette

Guy Mark Gillette (born February 3, 1879 in Cherokee , Iowa , † March 3, 1973 ibid) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ). He represented the state of Iowa in the US Senate .

Professional career

Guy Gillette attended the public schools in Cherokee and then studied until 1900 law at Drake University in Des Moines . He then got his license and worked in his hometown. In his work he focused on agricultural issues and served from 1906 to 1907 as a city attorney of Cherokee before he 1907-1909 as attorney of Cherokee County officiated.

In the United States Army in 1898 during the Spanish-American War he served as a sergeant in the "52. Iowa Regiment ”. During the First World War , he served as a captain from 1917 to 1919 .

Political career

From 1912 he had a seat in the Senate of Iowa and remained there until 1916. As a representative of the Democratic Party , he was elected to the 73rd Congress and re-elected to the 74th Congress , where he held his seat in the US until November 3, 1936. House of Representatives . He took over from Richard L. Murphy in the United States Senate as of that date after Murphy was killed in a car accident. Gillette held his post until January 3, 1939, when he was re-elected for the new term (1939–1945). He was denied re-election for a new term in 1944.

Gillette became Chairman of the Surplus Property Board in 1945 and presided over the American League for a Free Palestine from 1945 to 1948 . The now 73-year-old was re-elected to the United States Senate from January 3, 1949 to January 3, 1955. In the early 1950s, Gillette was one of the first to call for a NATO Parliamentary Assembly . He made himself available for an additional term in the election year 1954, but was then not re-elected. However, he remained on Capitol Hill and served as an advisor to the Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee from 1955 to 1956 and to the Judiciary Committee from 1956 to 1961 . Gillette spent his old age in Cherokee, where he died at the age of 94. He was buried in Oak Knoll Cemetery .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} [1] , Biographical Directory of the US Congress
2. ^ The birth of NATO Assembly. (PDF) NATO Assembly, Belgium, accessed on February 28, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Guy Mark Gillette. Retrieved August 16, 2014 .