Kenneth M. Regan

Kenneth M. Regan

Kenneth Mills Regan (born March 6, 1891 in Mount Morris , Ogle County , Illinois , †  August 15, 1959 in Santa Fe , New Mexico ) was an American politician . Between 1947 and 1955 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Kenneth Regan attended the public schools in his home country and then studied at Vincennes University in Indiana . During the First World War he served in the US Army Signal Corps . From 1920 Regan worked in Pecos in the real estate and oil businesses. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . He became a member of the parish council of Pecos; between 1929 and 1932 he was mayor there. From 1933 to 1937 Regan was a member of the Texas Senate . During the Second World War he was a captain in the intelligence service of the Army Aviation Corps. After the war, he moved to Midland , where he returned to the oil business.

After the resignation of the House of Representatives R. Ewing Thomason , Regan was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the by-election due for the 16th seat in Texas , where he took up his new mandate on August 23, 1947. After three re-elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1955 . In this time of the beginning of the fall Cold War , the Korean War and the beginning of the civil rights movement . 1954 Regan was no longer nominated for re-election by his party. After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, he was the representative of the railways of the state of Texas in the federal capital Washington. He died in Santa Fe on August 15, 1959 and was buried in Midland.

Web links

• Kenneth M. Regan in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Kenneth M. Regan in the database of Find a Grave (English)