Jesse H. Metcalf

Jesse H. Metcalf (1924)

Jesse Houghton Metcalf (born November 16, 1860 in Providence , Rhode Island , †  October 9, 1942 ibid) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Rhode Island between 1924 and 1937 in the US Senate .

Rise in Rhode Island

Jesse Metcalf first attended private schools before he went to England for a few years , where he trained in textile manufacturing in Yorkshire . In this area he later also worked professionally. In 1889 he was awarded a large part of the estate of Henry J. Steere , who was a business partner of his father and a wealthy industrialist.

In 1888 Metcalf was first politically active as a member of the Providence City Council; he stayed there until 1892. During this time he was also a member of the House of Representatives from Rhode Island between 1889 and 1891 , to which he was again in 1907. He also held other public offices as Chairman of the Metropolitan Park Commission of Rhode Island from 1909 to 1924 and as a member of the Penal and Charitable Board of the state from 1917 to 1923. He was also President of the Rhode Island Hospital and curator of the Rhode Island School of Design and from Brown University .

senator

After the death of US Senator LeBaron Bradford Colt , Jesse Metcalf was elected his successor in Congress on November 4, 1924 and ended Colt's term of office, which lasted until March 4, 1925. In 1930 he was re-elected, so that he remained in the Senate until January 3, 1937; in 1936 he was defeated by the Democrat Theodore F. Green . During his time in the Senate, among other things, he was Chairman of the Patent Committee .

From 1935 to 1940 Metcalf was also a member of the Republican National Committee .

Web links

• Jesse H. Metcalf in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Jesse H. Metcalf in the database of Find a Grave (English)