John Hamlin Folger

John Hamlin Folger (born December 18, 1880 in Rockford , Surry County , North Carolina , †  July 19, 1963 in Clemmons , North Carolina) was an American politician . Between 1941 and 1949 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Folger was the older brother of Congressman Alonzo Dillard Folger . He attended the public schools of his home country and Guilford College in Greensboro . After a subsequent law degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his admission as a lawyer in 1901, he began to work in Dobson in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

Between 1908 and 1912, Folger was Mayor of Mount Airy. He was a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1927 and 1928 ; In 1931 and 1932 he was a member of the State Senate . Between 1924 and 1940 he was a delegate at all regional democratic party conventions in his home state. In 1932 and 1944 he also took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions , at each of which Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated as a presidential candidate.

After the death of his brother Alonzo, who was still a congressman at the time, John Folger was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC on June 14, 1941 at the by-election for the fifth seat of North Carolina took up his new mandate. After three re-elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1949 . This time was shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. In 1948, Folger renounced another candidacy. In the following years until 1959 he practiced as a lawyer again; then he retired, which he spent at Mount Airy. He died on July 19, 1963 in Clemmons and was buried in Mount Airy.

Web links

• John Hamlin Folger in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Hamlin follower in the database of Find a Grave (English)