John Mills Houston

John Mills Houston (1939)

John Mills Houston (born September 15, 1890 in Formosa , Jewell County , Kansas , † April 29, 1975 in Laguna Beach , California ) was an American politician . Between 1935 and 1943 he represented the fifth constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Houston was born on a farm near Formosa. He attended public schools in Wichita , St. John's Military School in Salina, and then Fairmount University in Wichita. Between 1912 and 1917 he worked in the theater business. During the First World War he was a soldier in the US Marine Corps . From 1919 to 1934 he was in the wood business in Newton .

Houston was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1927 and 1931 he was Mayor of Newton and from 1934 to 1935 he was Secretary General on his party's executive committee in Kansas. In 1934 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth district of Kansas . There he took over on January 3, 1935 the seat that William Augustus Ayres had held until August 22, 1934. After three re-elections, Houston was able to complete four terms in Congress by January 3, 1943 . His last term of office was determined by the events of the Second World War . In the 1942 elections he was defeated by Republican Clifford R. Hope .

Between 1943 and 1953 Houston was a member of the National Board on Labor Relations . After his resignation on August 27, 1953, he retired, which he spent in Laguna Beach, California, where he died in 1975.

Web links

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

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