Joseph Carlton Loser

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Joseph Carlton Loser (born October 1, 1892 in Nashville , Tennessee , †  July 31, 1984 ) was an American politician . Between 1957 and 1963 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph Loser attended his home public schools and the YMCA Law School in Nashville. In 1910 he became a member of the Tennessee National Guard . Between 1917 and 1920, Loser served as Secretary to the Mayor of Nashville. After a subsequent law degree at Cumberland University in Lebanon and his admission as a lawyer in 1923, he began to practice in Nashville in his new profession. From 1923 to 1929 he was an assistant city attorney in Nashville. Between 1929 and 1956 he served first until 1934 as deputy and then as actual district attorney in the tenth judicial district of Tennessee.

Politically, Loser was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1944, 1955, and 1960 he took part as a delegate at the respective Democratic National Conventions . In 1944 he became a member of the US Coast Guard Reserve . From 1954 to 1958 he was a board member of his party in Tennessee. In the 1956 congressional election , Loser was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Tennessee , where he succeeded Percy Priest on January 3, 1957 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1963 . These were determined by the events of the Cold War and the civil rights movement .

In 1962, Loser sought a new nomination for his party and also won the relevant primaries. But it came to irregularities, so that he was accused of electoral fraud by his opponent Richard H. Fulton . The primaries were then repeated. Loser lost to Fulton, who subsequently also won the actual elections and took over Loser's mandate in Congress. After his defeat, Joseph Loser withdrew from politics. He spent his old age in Nashville, where he died on July 31, 1984 at the age of 91.

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SURNAME Loser, Joseph Carlton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Nashville , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1984
Place of death Nashville , Tennessee