Leonard S. Echols

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Leonard S. Echols

Leonard Sidney Echols (born October 30, 1871 in Madison , West Virginia , †  May 9, 1946 in Charleston , West Virginia) was an American politician . Between 1919 and 1923 he represented the sixth constituency of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Leonard Echols attended the public schools of his home country, then the University of Kentucky in Kentucky until 1894 and finally the Concord State Normal School in Athens (West Virginia) until 1898 . After studying law at Southern Normal University in Huntingdon ( Tennessee ) and being admitted to the bar in 1900, he began to work in his new profession in 1903 in Point Pleasant .

From 1904 to 1909 Echols was a district attorney in Mason County . Between 1909 and 1919 he served as Assistant State Tax Commissioner of West Virginia. Echols was a member of the Republican Party and was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in 1918 as its candidate in the sixth district of West Virginia . There he took over on March 4, 1919, the successor to the Democrat Adam Brown Littlepage . After re-election in 1920, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1923 . There he was chairman of the Department of Navy's Expenditure Control Committee. During this time the 20th amendment to the constitution was passed, which introduced the nationwide right to vote for women .

In the congressional elections of 1922 and 1924 Echols was subject to the Democrat J. Alfred Taylor . Between 1923 and 1924 he was a member of a committee that controlled the Ministry of Finance. In 1924 he attended the Republican Convention in West Virginia as a delegate. Echols ran the Charleston mailroom between 1925 and 1928; after that he worked as a lawyer again. He also worked as a government bankruptcy administrator. He died in Charleston on May 9, 1946.

Web links

  • Leonard S. Echols in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Echols, Leonard S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Echols, Leonard Sidney (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Madison , West Virginia
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 1946
Place of death Charleston , West Virginia