Joseph Irwin France

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Joseph Irwin France

Joseph Irwin France (*  11. October 1873 in Cameron , Clinton County , Missouri ; †  26. January 1939 in Port Deposit , Maryland ) was an American politician of the Republican Party , of the State of Maryland in the US Senate represented.

Life

After schooling France graduated in 1895 at Hamilton College in Clinton ( New York ). As a result, he studied temporarily at the University of Leipzig before graduating from the medical faculty of Clark University in Worcester ( Massachusetts ).

In 1897 he began to work as a science teacher at a college in Port Deposit. He later resigned to attend the physico-surgical college in Baltimore . After his graduation in 1903 he worked as a doctor. In 1908 France entered the financial sector. From 1916 to 1917 he was director of the medical and surgical faculty of Maryland.

politics

From 1906 to 1908 Joseph France was a member of the Maryland Senate . He stepped down to focus on his professional life and returned to the political scene in 1916 when he was elected to the US Senate. There he was chairman of the Committee on Public Health. In the 1922 election he was defeated by the Democrat William Cabell Bruce .

This defeat was followed by a decade in which he concentrated on his work as president of an insurance company and work as a doctor. Politically, France reappeared in 1932 when he ran in the Republican primary as a candidate for US President Herbert Hoover . Although he won in some states, he suffered a significant defeat at the Republican National Convention .

In 1934 he finally wanted to return to the Senate. But the race for the seat of the resigned Phillips Lee Goldsborough was won by his Democratic opponent George Radcliffe .

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