Herbert B. Warburton

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Herbert B. Warburton

Herbert Birchby Warburton (born September 21, 1916 in Wilmington , Delaware , † July 30, 1983 in Lewes , Delaware) was an American politician . Between 1953 and 1955 he represented the state of Delaware in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Herbert Warburton attended the public schools in Wilmington and Reading ( Pennsylvania ). He then studied until June 1938 at the University of Delaware in Newark . This was followed by a law degree at the Dickinson School of Law in Carlisle (Pennsylvania) until 1941 . Warburton served as an officer in the US Army during World War II . By the time he left military service in December 1945, he had achieved the rank of major.

In 1942 he had been admitted to the bar in absentia because of his military service. From January 1946 he began to practice this profession in Wilmington. Between 1949 and 1952 he was a trial lawyer for that city. Politically, Warburton was a member of the Republican Party . In 1952 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC with 52% of the vote against the Democrat Joseph S. Scannell . There he replaced Cale Boggs on January 3, 1953 . However, since he did not run again in 1954, he could only spend one legislative period in Congress until January 3, 1955 .

In the same congressional election in 1954, Warburton ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate . He lost with 43% to 57% of the votes to the Democrat J. Allen Frear . From 1955 to 1957 Warburton worked for the Federal Department of Labor and between 1957 and 1961 he was an advisor to the Department of Post. He then worked until 1964 administratively for his party in a subcommittee of the Congress ( House Government Operations Subcommittee ). He later was the managing director of the American Orthosis and Prosthetics Association.

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