Joe Shannon

Joseph Bernard "Joe" Shannon (born March 17, 1867 in St. Louis , Missouri , †  March 28, 1943 in Kansas City , Missouri) was an American politician . Between 1931 and 1943 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joe Shannon attended St. Louis public schools and Spalding Business College in Kansas City. In the meantime he had moved to Girard , Kansas with his parents . After the death of his father, he came to Kansas City in 1879. There he became a police officer at the district court in 1890. After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1905, he began to work in Kansas City in this profession.

Politically, Shannon was a member of the Democratic Party . Within this party, he led the opposition to the temporarily powerful party boss Tom Pendergast . In 1910 Shannon was his state party chairman. Between 1908 and 1940 he took part as a delegate at a total of seven Democratic National Conventions . In 1922 and 1923 he served on a commission to revise the Missouri Constitution.

In the 1930 congressional elections , Shannon was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Edgar C. Ellis on March 4, 1931. After five re-elections, he was able to stand until January 3, 1943 complete six terms in Congress . In 1933 the 20th and 21st amendments were ratified. Between 1933 and 1941, most of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Since December 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of the Second World War .

In 1942, Joe Shannon decided not to run again. He died on March 28, 1943, barely three months after he left Congress, in Kansas City, where he was buried.

Web links

• Joe Shannon in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joe Shannon in the database of Find a Grave (English)