John Lloyd Dorsey

John Lloyd Dorsey (born August 10, 1891 in Henderson , Kentucky , †  March 22, 1960 there ) was an American politician . In 1930 and 1931 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Dorsey attended his home public schools and Bethel College in Russellville . He then studied until 1912 at Center College in Danville . After a subsequent law degree, which he also completed at Center College, and his admission as a lawyer in 1913, he began to work in Henderson in this profession. During the First World War in 1918 he was a soldier in the headquarters of a US Army brigade .

Politically, Dorsey was a member of the Democrats . Between 1920 and 1824 he was a member of the executive committee of his party. In 1926 and 1930 he was a Henderson town attorney. After the resignation of MP David Hayes Kincheloe , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the necessary by-election in the second constituency of Kentucky , where he took up his new mandate on November 4, 1930. Since he did not run in the regular congressional elections of 1930, he was only able to end the current legislative period of his predecessor until March 3, 1931.

In the years that followed, until his death in 1960, Dorsey practiced law again. Between 1936 and 1937 he was also once again the legal representative of the Henderson community.

Web links

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

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