J. Hardin Peterson

J. Hardin Peterson (1940)

James Hardin Peterson (born February 11, 1894 in Batesburg , Lexington County , South Carolina , †  March 28, 1978 in Lakeland , Florida ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1951 he represented the state of Florida in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1903, J. Hardin Peterson came to Lakeland, Florida, where he attended public schools. After a subsequent law degree at the University of Florida and his admission as a lawyer in 1914, he began to practice in Lakeland from 1915 in his new profession. In 1914 he worked as a legal assistant for the General Land Office . In the following years he was the legal representative of Lakeland and several other cities in Florida on several occasions. During World War I , he served in the US Navy between 1917 and 1919 . Between 1921 and 1932, Peterson was a prosecutor in Polk County . From 1930 to 1932 he was also an advisor to the state's Ministry of Agriculture.

Peterson was a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1932 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Florida , where he succeeded Herbert J. Drane on March 4, 1933 . After eight re-elections, he was able to complete nine legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1951 . It was there that most of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s . Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of World War II . The Cold War began in the final years of his tenure in the US House of Representatives . In 1933, the 21st amendment to the Constitution repealed the Prohibition Act from 1919, which had proven to be impracticable.

In 1950, Peterson renounced another congressional candidacy. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer in Lakeland. He also became an advisor to the territorial government of Guam and headed a commission to bring American laws into line with those in Guam. Peterson was also a board member of the First State Bank of Lakeland . He died on March 28, 1978 in Lakeland.

Web links

• J. Hardin Peterson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• J. Hardin Peterson in the database of Find a Grave (English)