Joseph J. Mansfield

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Joseph J. Mansfield

Joseph Jefferson Mansfield (born February 9, 1861 in Wayne , Wayne County , Virginia , †  July 12, 1947 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1917 and 1947 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Born in what is now West Virginia , Joseph Mansfield attended public schools in his homeland. In 1881 he moved to Alleyton , Texas, where he worked on a farm and as a gardener. Later he was a freight and luggage porter for the Southern Pacific Railroad . After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1886, he began to work in Eagle Lake in this profession. In this city he also founded the first daily newspaper. At that time he also set up two companies for the Texas National Guard. Within the National Guard, he made it up to the captain.

In 1888 he was a prosecutor in Eagle Lake; In 1889 he became mayor there. From 1892 to 1896, Mansfield served as a district attorney in Colorado County before he was a school councilor in the same district from 1896 to 1910. At the same time he worked there as a district judge between 1896 and 1916. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party .

In the 1916 congressional election , Mansfield was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Texas , where he succeeded George Farmer Burgess on March 4, 1917 . After 15 re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on July 12, 1947 . From 1931 to 1947 he was chairman of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors . In his time as a congressman fell both the First and the Second World War . In the 1930s, the federal government's New Deal laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . In addition, the 18th , 19th , 20th, and 21st amendments were ratified during his time as Congressman .

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SURNAME Mansfield, Joseph J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mansfield, Joseph Jefferson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Wayne , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1947
Place of death Bethesda , Maryland