John D. Works

John Downey Works (born March 29, 1847 in Rising Sun , Ohio County , Indiana ; † June 6, 1928 in Los Angeles , California ) was an American lawyer and politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of California in the US Senate represented.

John Works attended private schools in Indiana. As a young man he joined a cavalry volunteer regiment from his home state and fought on the Union side in the civil war . After the war ended, he studied law , was admitted to the bar in 1868 and began practicing law in Vevay . He took his first political mandate as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives between 1878 and 1880.

In 1883 Works moved to San Diego , California, where he continued to practice law. From 1886 to 1887 he served as a judge in the Superior Court of San Diego County ; thereafter he was an associate judge on the California Supreme Court from 1888 to 1891 . After he settled in Los Angeles in 1896, he was elected President of the City Council in 1910.

That same year, Works won the US Senatorial election. He took his mandate in Washington, DC from March 4, 1911 and stayed there until March 3, 1917; he was not available for a new candidacy. During his time in the Senate, he chaired the War Ministry's Expenditures Control Committee and the Fisheries Committee.

Works then worked again as a lawyer, but also worked as a book author. He published the books Duty to Man: A Study of Social Conditions and How They May Be Improved and What's Wrong With the World? before he died in Los Angeles in 1928.

Web links

John D. Works in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Works, John D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Works, John Downey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	March 29, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH	at Rising Sun , Indiana
DATE OF DEATH	June 6, 1928
Place of death	Los Angeles , California