Joseph R. Knowland

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Joseph R. Knowland

Joseph Russell Knowland (born August 5, 1873 in Alameda , California , †  February 1, 1966 in Piedmont , California) was an American politician . Between 1904 and 1915 he represented the state of California in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph Knowland attended both public and private schools and then studied at the College of the Pacific at Stockton . In the following years he worked in his father's company in the timber trade. He also became a director of the American Trust Co. At the same time, he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party . Between 1898 and 1902 he was a member of the California State Assembly ; from 1902 to 1904 he was a member of the State Senate .

After the resignation of the MP Victor H. Metcalf , who was appointed to the cabinet of Roosevelt , Knowland was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the due by-election for the third seat of California , where he took up his new mandate on November 8, 1904 . After four re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1915 . Since 1913 he represented there as the successor to James C. Needham the sixth constituency of his state. In 1913 the 16th and 17th amendments were ratified.

In 1914 Joseph Knowland ran for the US Senate , but lost to James D. Phelan . Then he also got into the newspaper business. From 1915 he headed the Oakland Tribune . Between 1936 and 1960 he was chairman of the California State Park Commission , which dealt with the administration of the state parks of California. In 1950 he chaired the commission for the 100th anniversary of his home state's accession to the United States. Knowland spent his old age in Piedmont, where he died on February 1, 1966. He was buried in Oakland . His son William (1908–1974) was a member of the US Senate from 1945 to 1959.

Web links

  • Joseph R. Knowland in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Knowland, Joseph R.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knowland, Joseph Russell (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Alameda , California
DATE OF DEATH 1st February 1966
Place of death Piedmont , California