Jouett Shouse

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Jouett Shouse

Jouett Shouse (born December 10, 1879 in Midway , Woodford County , Kentucky , † June 2, 1968 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1915 and 1919 he represented the seventh constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1892 Jouett Shouse came with his parents to Mexico in the state of Missouri . There he attended public schools. He later studied at the University of Missouri at Columbia . In 1898 he moved to Lexington , Kentucky, where he worked in the newspaper business until 1911. In 1911 he moved to Kinsley where he worked in agriculture and ranching. He also became president of a railroad company and director of Kinsley Bank .

Politically, Shouse was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1913 and 1915 he was a member of the Kansas Senate . In 1914 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the seventh district of his state, where he succeeded George A. Neeley on March 4, 1915 . After re-election in 1916, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1919 , the last of which was shaped by the events of the First World War .

In the 1920 elections, Shouse was defeated by Republican Jasper N. Tincher . Between March 5, 1919 and November 15, 1920, he was Secretary of the Treasury ( Assistant Secretary of the Treasury ) under Carter Glass and David F. Houston . In 1920, 1924 and 1932 he took part as a delegate at the respective Democratic National Conventions . Between 1929 and 1932 he was chairman of his party's executive committee. In 1932 he was against the nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a presidential candidate, but could not prevail at the convention. Shouse was also involved in repealing the Prohibition Act in 1933. In the following years he worked as a lawyer in Kansas City (Missouri) and in the federal capital Washington. In 1953 he became chairman of the board of directors of Anton Smit and Co. in New York City .

Shouse also bred racehorses and dogs and was a fan of horse racing, which was very popular in Kentucky. In 1965 he retired. He died in Washington on June 2, 1968 and was buried in Lexington. He was married twice.

Web links

  • Jouett Shouse in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)