John Jennings (politician)

John Jennings (1939)

John Jennings Jr. (born June 6, 1880 in Jacksboro , Tennessee , †  February 27, 1956 in Knoxville , Tennessee) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1951 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Jennings attended public schools in his home country and then American Temperance University in Harriman . This was followed by studies at Grant University in Athens . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1903, he began to work in his new profession in Jellico . In 1903 and 1904 he served as a school council in local Campbell County . Between 1911 and 1918 he was a public prosecutor in this district. Politically, Jennings was a member of the Republican Party . In 1912, 1936 and 1944 he participated as a delegate at their Republican National Conventions . Between 1918 and 1919 he worked as a special assistant for the Federal Minister of Justice . He then served as a judge in the Tennessee Second District Court until 1923. In 1923 he moved to Knoxville, where he practiced as a lawyer in the years that followed.

After the death of Congressman J. Will Taylor , Jennings was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the by-election for the second seat of Tennessee . There he took up his new mandate on December 30, 1939. After five re-elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1951 . There, further New Deal laws were passed by the federal government by 1941 . Since December 7, 1941, the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , the work of Congress has also been shaped by the events of World War II . Jennings later saw the start of the Cold War as a congressman .

In 1950, John Jennings was no longer nominated for re-election by his party. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he returned to working as a lawyer in Knoxville. He died there on February 27, 1956.

Web links

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

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