James I. Dolliver

James I. Dolliver, 1953

James Isaac Dolliver (born August 31, 1894 in Park Ridge , Illinois , †  December 10, 1978 in Rolla , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1945 and 1957 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Dolliver attended the common schools and then in Hot Springs ( South Dakota ). He then continued his education until 1915 at Morningside College in Sioux City (Iowa). From 1915 to 1917 he worked as a teacher in Alta and Humboldt . During the First World War he was a simple soldier in a news unit. He was not used in the European theater of war.

After completing a law degree at the University of Chicago and his admission to the bar in 1921, he began to practice his new profession in Chicago . In 1922 he moved to Fort Dodge , Iowa. Between 1924 and 1929, Dolliver was a district attorney in Webster County ; from 1938 to 1945 he was a member of the Fort Dodge School Board. He also practiced as a private lawyer.

Dolliver was a member of the Republican Party . In 1942 he ran unsuccessfully for his party's Republican nomination for the US Senate elections . In 1944 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Iowa , where he succeeded Fred C. Gilchrist on January 3, 1945 , whom he had beaten in his party's primary election. After five re-elections, he was able to complete six consecutive terms in Congress by January 3, 1957 . During this time the end of World War II , the Korean War and the beginning of the Cold War fell . In 1951 the 22nd amendment to the Constitution was discussed and passed in Congress , which limited the term of office of the US President to two legislative terms. In the elections of 1956 Dolliver was defeated by the Democrat Merwin Coad .

After serving in the House of Representatives, Dolliver served as legal advisor to the International Corporation Administration for the Middle East from 1957 to 1959 . In 1959, Dolliver retired, which he spent at Spirit Lake . He died on December 10, 1978 in Rolla, Missouri and was buried in Fort Dodge.

Web links

• James I. Dolliver in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• James I. Dolliver in the database of Find a Grave (English)