Leonard Irving

Theodore Leonard Irving (born March 24, 1898 in Saint Paul , Minnesota , †  March 8, 1962 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1949 and 1953 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In his youth, Leonard Irving moved with his parents to North Dakota , where he attended public schools. He worked for the railroad until the end of the First World War . Then he went to Montana , where he became a manager at a theater. He then ran a hotel in California . In 1934 Irving moved to Jackson County , Missouri. There he worked as a construction worker. At the same time he was involved in the trade union movement. He became a local representative of the American Federation of Labor .

Politically, Irving was a member of the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1948 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the fourth constituency of Missouri, where he succeeded C. Jasper Bell on January 3, 1949 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until January 3, 1953 . These were shaped by the events of the Cold War . In 1951, the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, limiting the term of office of the US President to re-election.

In 1952, Irving was defeated by Republican Jeffrey Paul Hillelson . Two years later he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for the 1954 congressional elections. As a result, Irving worked in the trade union movement. He later became president of a union in Kansas City . He died on March 8, 1962 while on a business trip in the federal capital Washington and was buried in Kansas City.

Web links

• Leonard Irving in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Leonard Irving in the database of Find a Grave (English)