L. Irving cell phone

L. Irving cell phone

Levin Irving Handy (born December 24, 1861 in Berlin , Maryland , † February 3, 1922 in Wilmington , Delaware ) was an American politician . Between 1897 and 1899 he represented the state of Delaware in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Irving Handy was the nephew of William Breckinridge , who served in the US House of Representatives for the State of Kentucky from 1885 to 1894 . He attended public schools in Maryland and New York states . After leaving school, he taught himself as a teacher in Somerset County , Maryland. In 1881 he was appointed director of the Smyrna, Delaware high school . Handy was a school councilor in Kent County between 1887 and 1890 . After that he was a teacher at the Old Newark Academy in Newark until 1892 .

As a member of the Democratic Party , Handy was its chairman in Delaware between 1892 and 1896. In 1900, 1904 and 1908 he was a delegate at the respective Democratic National Conventions . Between 1894 and 1895, Handy wrote editorials for the Wilmington Every Evening newspaper. In the congressional elections of 1894 he ran unsuccessfully for the US House of Representatives. In 1896 he was elected to Congress , where he succeeded Republican Jonathan S. Willis on March 4, 1897 . Since he lost to John H. Hoffecker in the 1898 elections , Irving Handy was only able to serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1899.

After studying law, Handy was admitted to the bar in 1899. In 1904 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Attorney General of Delaware; In 1908, an attempted return to Congress failed. This time he was defeated by William H. Heald . Otherwise, Irving Handy worked as a lawyer in Wilmington during these years, where he also died in 1922.

Web links

• L. Irving Handy in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• L. Irving cell phone in the database of Find a Grave (English)