John Kee

John Kee

John Kee (born August 22, 1874 in Glenville , Gilmer County , West Virginia , †  May 8, 1951 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1951 he represented the fifth constituency of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Kee attended public schools in Glenville and State Normal School and West Virginia University in Morgantown . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1897, he began to practice his new profession in Glenville. From 1900 to 1902 he worked for the South Penn Oil Co .; then he was from 1902 to 1910 legal advisor to the Virginia Railway Co. 1910 he moved his residence and his law firm to Bluefield in Mercer County . Between 1916 and 1918 he was on a special legal mission in Mexicoactive. After returning to Bluefield, he returned to work as a lawyer.

Kee was a member of the Democratic Party , for which he sat in the West Virginia Senate from 1923 to 1927 . In 1932 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the fifth district of his state, where he succeeded Republican Hugh Ike Shott on March 4, 1933 . This election victory was part of the federal trend at the time, which saw the Democratic Party clearly on the rise. The high point of this trend was the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as US President. After nine re-elections, John Kee could remain in Congress until his death on May 8, 1951 . During this time the New Deal laws were passed. In 1933, the 21st amendment to the Constitution repealed the alcohol ban in 1919. Between 1941 and 1945, the work of the Congress was overshadowed by the events of the Second World War .

John Kee was married to Elizabeth Kee , who was his direct successor as Congresswoman between 1951 and 1965. Their son James took the same seat as his parents from 1965 to 1973 after his mother. This represented the fifth constituency of West Virginia in Congress between 1933 and its dissolution in 1973 by members of the Kee family.

Web links

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

• John Kee in the Databank Find a Grave (English)