John Humphrey Small

John Humphrey Small

John Humphrey Small (born August 29, 1858 in Washington , North Carolina , †  July 13, 1946 there ) was an American politician . Between 1899 and 1921 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Small first attended private schools and then studied at Trinity College , now Duke University , in Durham . Between 1876 and 1880 he worked as a teacher. After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1881, he began to work in this profession in Washington. In the same year he became an administrative clerk with the North Carolina Senate . Small was also a school councilor in Beaufort County . Between 1882 and 1885 he served as a public prosecutor at the district court of this district. From 1883 to 1886 Small also published the Washington Gazette. Between 1888 and 1896 he was a member of the county council of Beaufort County. In his hometown of Washington he was a city councilor from 1887 to 1890; in the years 1889 and 1890 he also served as mayor there.

Small was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1889 and 1920 he participated as a delegate at all regional Democratic party conventions in North Carolina. In the congressional election of 1898 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded Harry Skinner on March 4, 1899 . After ten re-elections, he was able to complete eleven legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1921 . During this time the First World War fell . Between 1913 and 1920, the 16th , 17th , 18th and 19th amendments were ratified. Between 1917 and 1919 John Small was chairman of the committee that dealt with the rivers and harbors of the country ( Committee on Rivers and Harbors ).

In 1920, Small decided not to run again. Until 1931 he stayed in the federal capital Washington, where he practiced as a lawyer. He then returned to the city of the same name in North Carolina, where he died on July 13, 1946.

Web links

• John Humphrey Small in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Humphrey Small in the database of Find a Grave (English)