Karl M. Le Compte

Karl M. Le Compte

Karl Miles Le Compte (born May 25, 1887 in Corydon , Iowa , †  September 30, 1972 in Centerville , Iowa) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1959 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Karl Le Compte attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1909 the State University in Iowa City . In 1910 he became the owner and publisher of the Corydon Times-Republican newspaper. During the First World War in 1918 he was a soldier in a medical unit for a short time. But it was not used in Europe. Le Compte belonged to the Republican Party and sat from 1917 to 1921 for this in the Iowa Senate .

In the 1938 congressional election, Le Compte was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fifth constituency of Iowa , where he succeeded Lloyd Thurston on January 3, 1939 . After re-election in 1940, he was able to represent his district in Congress until January 3, 1943 . After a redistribution of the electoral districts, Le Compte successfully ran for the fourth constituency from 1942. With that he took over the mandate from Henry O. Talle on January 3, 1943 . After eight re-elections, he was able to spend ten terms in the US House of Representatives until January 3, 1959, including his time in the fifth district. In his first legislative term from 1939 to 1941 he was a member of the Committee on Public Land and the Committee on Insular Affairs. Between 1947 and 1949 and again from 1953 to 1955 he was chairman of the Committee on House Administration . His tenure in Congress included World War II , the Korean War , the beginning of the Cold War, and domestically the rise of the civil rights movement. In 1951, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was passed, limiting the presidential term of office to two legislative terms.

In 1958, Le Compte decided not to run again. His mandate then fell to the Democrat Steven V. Carter , who had already narrowly lost to LeCompte several times before. After leaving Congress, LeCompte returned to the newspaper business. He died in Centerville on September 30, 1972 and was buried in Corydon.

Web links

• Karl M. Le Compte in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Karl M. Le Compte in the database of Find a Grave (English)