James Robert Claiborne

James Robert Claiborne (born June 22, 1882 in St. Louis , Missouri , †  February 16, 1944 there ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1937 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Claiborne was a grandson of Congressman Nathaniel Claiborne (1777-1859) from Virginia . He attended the public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree at the University of Missouri at Columbia and his admission to the bar in 1907, he began to work in this profession in St. Louis. He later also gave law lectures at Saint Louis University for a few years . In 1924 he unsuccessfully applied for the post of judge in the eighth judicial district of Missouri.

Politically, Claiborne 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 twelfth constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Leonidas C. Dyer on March 4, 1933 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1937 . During this time the first New Deal laws of the federal government were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . In 1933, the 18th Amendment from 1919 was repealed with the 21st amendment to the Constitution . It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages.

In 1936, James Claiborne was no longer nominated for re-election by his party. In the following years he practiced again as a lawyer in St. Louis, where he died on February 16, 1944.

Web links

• James Robert Claiborne in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• James Robert Claiborne in the database of Find a Grave (English)