John E. Nelson (politician, 1874)

John E. Nelson (1922)

John Edward Nelson (born July 12, 1874 in China , Kennebec County , Maine , †  April 11, 1955 in Augusta , Maine) was an American politician . Between 1922 and 1933 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Nelson attended public schools including Waterville High School . He then graduated from the Friends School in Providence ( Rhode Island ) by 1894 . Until 1898 he studied again in Waterville at the local Colby College . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Maine and his admission as a lawyer in 1904, he began to practice in Waterville in his new profession. In 1913 he moved his residence and law firm to Augusta.

Politically, Nelson was a member of the Republican Party . After the resignation of Congressman John A. Peters , he was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the due by-election in the third constituency of Maine . There he took up his new mandate on March 20, 1922. After he was confirmed in the five following regular congressional elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1933 . Since the end of 1929 his term of office was overshadowed by the events of the Great Depression. At the end of his time in Congress, the 20th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, which re-regulated the beginning of the terms of office of Congress and the President.

In the following years until 1946 Nelson worked again as a lawyer. Then he retired. In the meantime he was the curator of Colby College and Monmouth Academy . John Nelson died in Augusta on April 11, 1955 and was buried in Waterville. His son Charles (1907–1962) sat between 1949 and 1957 for the State of Maine in the US House of Representatives.

Web links

• John E. Nelson (politician, 1874) in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• John E. Nelson in the database of Find a Grave (English)