Homer A. Ramey

Homer A. Ramey (1921)

Homer Alonzo Ramey (born March 2, 1891 in Sparta , Morrow County , Ohio , †  April 13, 1960 in Toledo , Ohio) was an American politician . Between 1943 and 1949 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Homer Ramey was born on a farm near Sparta. He attended public schools in his homeland including high school. In 1913 he graduated from Park College in Parkville ( Missouri ). After a subsequent law degree at Ohio Northern University in Ada and at the Cincinnati Law School and his admission to the bar in 1917, he began to work in this profession in the community of Put-in-Bay . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1920 and 1924 he was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives ; from 1925 to 1926 he was a member of the State Senate . From 1926 to 1943 he was a municipal judge in Toledo. In 1938 he ran unsuccessfully for the US House of Representatives.

In the 1942 congressional elections , Ramey was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Ohio , where he succeeded Democrat John F. Hunter on January 3, 1943 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1949 . During this time, among other things, the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the Cold War fell . In 1948, Ramey was not re-elected; two years later he failed his attempt to be re-elected to Congress.

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Homer Ramey had been a city judge in Toledo since 1949. He held this office until his death in this city on April 13, 1960.

Web links

• Homer A. Ramey in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Homer A. Ramey in the database of Find a Grave (English)