Joseph H. Gaines

Joseph H. Gaines

Joseph Holt Gaines (born September 3, 1864 in Washington, DC , †  April 12, 1951 in Montgomery , West Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1901 and 1911 he represented the third electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph Gaines moved to Fayette County , West Virginia, with his parents in 1867 . He later attended West Virginia University in Morgantown and then, until 1886, Princeton College . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1887, he began to work in his new profession in Fayetteville . Between 1897 and 1901, Gaines served as the federal attorney for the area of ​​West Virginia.

Gaines was a member of the Republican Party and was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in 1900 as its candidate in the third district of West Virginia. There he took over on March 4, 1901, succeeding Democrat David Emmons Johnston . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five consecutive terms in Congress by March 3, 1911 . From 1903 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with the presidential and congressional elections. In the elections of 1910 he was defeated by the Democrat Adam Brown Littlepage .

After leaving Congress, Gaines withdrew from federal politics. He worked as a lawyer in Charleston . Joseph Gaines died in Montgomery in 1951 and was buried in Charleston.

Web links

• Joseph H. Gaines in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joseph H. Gaines in the database of Find a Grave (English)