LM Gensman

LM Gensman

Lorraine Michael Gensman (born August 26, 1878 in Wichita , Kansas , † May 27, 1954 in Lawton , Oklahoma ) was an American politician . Between 1921 and 1923 he represented the sixth constituency of the state of Oklahoma in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Gensman attended the county schools of his home country and then the Garden Plain Graded School , Wichita Commercial College , Lewis Academy, and Kansas State Normal School . In the years 1896 and 1897 he was himself in the school service and taught in Andale (Kansas) as a teacher.

After studying law at the University of Kansas and his admission to the bar in 1901, Gensman began working in Lawrence in his new profession. In 1901 he moved to Lawton, Oklahoma Territory . Between 1902 and 1907 he was a bankruptcy judge in his new home and from 1918 to 1919 he was a district attorney in Comanche County .

LM Gensman became a member of the Republican Party . In 1920 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth district of Oklahoma , where he replaced Scott Ferris on March 4, 1921 . But since he was not re-elected in 1922, Gensman could only hold one term in Congress until March 3, 1923 .

In 1924, Gensman was a delegate to the Republican National Convention , where President Calvin Coolidge was nominated for a second term. In 1936 he applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress. Otherwise he worked as a lawyer and in the oil industry. In 1953 he retired from business life. He died and was buried in Lawton the following year.

Web links

• LM Gensman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• LM Gensman in the database of Find a Grave (English)