James Floyd Breeding

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James Floyd Breeding (born September 28, 1901 in Robinson , Brown County , Kansas , † October 17, 1977 in Dodge City , Kansas) was an American politician . Between 1957 and 1963 he represented the fifth constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Breeding attended elementary school in Moonlight in Dickinson County . He then graduated from Berryton High School in Shawnee County . In 1921 and 1922, Breeding studied at Kansas State College in Manhattan . In 1928 he moved to Rolla in Morton County , where until 1956 worked as a farmer and rancher.

Breeding was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1947 and 1949 he was a member of the Kansas House of Representatives . In 1949 he headed the Democratic Group, in 1950 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Lieutenant Governor of Kansas. In 1951, Breeding became president of the Western Kansas Development Association . In 1960 and 1964 he was a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions , at which John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson were nominated as the party's presidential candidates.

In 1956, Breeding was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . There he took over from Clifford R. Hope on January 3, 1957 . After he was confirmed in 1958 and 1960, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1963 . In the 1962 elections he was defeated by Republican Joe Skubitz . After his tenure in Congress ended, Breeding was appointed head of the Department of Agriculture . He held this position from 1963 to 1966. In 1966 he ran unsuccessfully for the US Senate . James Breeding died in Dodge City in October 1977 and was buried in Rolla.

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