Joel West Flood

Joel West Flood (born August 2, 1894 in Appomattox County , Virginia , †  April 27, 1964 in Richmond , Virginia) was an American politician . In 1932 and 1933 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joel Flood was the younger brother of Congressman Henry D. Flood (1865-1921) and the uncle of US Senator and Governor Harry F. Byrd (1887-1966). He attended public schools in his home country and then studied at Washington and Lee University in Lexington , the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and the University of Oxford in England . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1917, he started in Appomattoxto practice in this profession. He also worked in agriculture. Between March 1918 and July 1919 he served as a soldier in the US Army during the final stages of the First World War . From 1922 to 1926 he was on the staff of Governor Elbert Lee Trinkle . From 1919 to 1932 he was a full-time prosecutor in Appomattox County. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party .

After the death of MP Henry St. George Tucker III , Flood was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC when he was due for the tenth seat of Virginia , where he took up his new mandate on November 8, 1932. Since he did not run again in the regular congressional elections in 1932 , he was only able to end the current legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1933 .

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Flood returned to work as a lawyer and in agriculture. In June 1936 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia , on which President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for re-election. Flood was a judge in the Virginia Fifth Judicial District from 1940 until his death. He died in Richmond on April 27, 1964.

Web links

• Joel West Flood in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joel West Flood in the database of Find a Grave (English)