Heartsill Ragon

Heartsill Ragon (born March 20, 1885 in Dublin , Logan County , Arkansas , †  September 15, 1940 in Fort Smith , Arkansas) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1923 and 1933 he represented the fifth constituency of the state of Arkansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Heartsill Ragon attended his home public schools, Clarksville High School and the College of the Ozarks in Clarksville . He then studied at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville . After a final law degree from Washington and Lee University in Lexington ( Virginia ) and its made in 1908 admitted to the bar Ragon started working in Clarksville in this profession.

Ragon was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1911 and 1913 he was a member of the Arkansas House of Representatives . He then served as a district attorney from 1916 to 1920. In 1918 he was secretary and in 1920 chairman of the Democratic Congress in Arkansas. In 1920 he was also a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco .

In the 1922 congressional election , Ragon was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth district of Arkansas . There he replaced Henderson M. Jacoway on March 4, 1923 . After five re-elections, he remained in Congress until June 16, 1933 . He resigned that day because he had been appointed a judge in the federal district court for western Arkansas. He held this office until his death in 1940.

Web links

• Heartsill Ragon in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Heartsill Ragon in database Find a Grave (English)