John Carl Hinshaw

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John Carl Hinshaw

John Carl Williams Hinshaw (born July 28, 1894 in Chicago , Illinois , †  August 5, 1956 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1956 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Hinshaw attended the public schools of his home country and then studied at Valparaiso University in Indiana . He then continued his education until 1916 at Princeton University . He later completed a business administration course at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor . During the First World War , Hinshaw served between 1917 and 1919 as a first lieutenant and later as a captain in the pioneers of the US Army . Between 1920 and 1926 he worked in the automotive industry in Chicago; then he went into the banking industry. In 1929 he moved to Pasadena , California, where he worked in the real estate and insurance industries. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1936 he ran unsuccessfully for the US House of Representatives.

In the congressional election of 1938 but Hinshaw was then elected to the eleventh constituency of California in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded John S. McGroarty on January 3, 1939 . After eight re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on August 5, 1956 . By 1941, the last of the Federal Government's New Deal laws were passed there under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. Hinhaw later witnessed the beginning of the Cold War , the Korean War and the civil rights movement as a member of parliament . Since 1943 he represented the 20th district of his state in Congress as the successor to Edouard Izac . He was temporarily a member of the Committee on Internal and Foreign Trade and the Joint Atomic Energy Committee . In 1947 he was also a member of the Air Policy Board . At the time of his death, John Hinshaw was already nominated for re-election.

Web links

  • John Carl Hinshaw in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Hinshaw, John Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hinshaw, John Carl Williams (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH 5th August 1956
Place of death Bethesda , Maryland