Lindley Beckworth

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Lindley Beckworth (1938)

Lindley Garrison Beckworth Sr. (born June 30, 1913 with Mabank , Kaufman County , Texas , †  March 9, 1984 in Tyler , Texas) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1939 and 1953 and again from 1957 to 1967 he represented the state of Texas in the US House of Representatives ; later he became a federal judge .

Career

Lindley Beckworth attended public schools in his home country and subsequently various colleges and the Southern Methodist University in Dallas . He then worked as a teacher in Upshur County for three years . After studying law at Baylor University and the University of Texas at Austin and his admission to the bar in 1937, he began to work in this profession in Gilmer . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . From 1936 to 1938 he was a member of the Texas House of Representatives .

In the 1938 congressional election , Beckworth was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the third constituency of Texas , where he succeeded Morgan G. Sanders on January 3, 1939 . After six re-elections, he was able to complete seven legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1953 . By 1941, further New Deal laws were passed there by the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences.

In 1952 Beckworth declined to run again. Instead, he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for the US Senate elections . He then worked as a lawyer in Longview . In the elections of 1956 he was re-elected to Congress in the third district of his state. After four re-elections he was able to spend five more terms in the US House of Representatives between January 3, 1957 and January 3, 1967 as the successor to Brady P. Gentry . It was during this period that the civil rights movement , the Cold War, and the beginning of the Vietnam War reached its height . In 1966 Beckworth was no longer nominated for re-election by his party.

In the years 1967-1968 was Lindley Beckworth federal judge on duty court ( United States Customs Court ) in New York City . After that he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on March 9, 1984 in Tyler, where he was also buried.

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SURNAME Beckworth, Lindley
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beckworth, Lindley Garrison Sr. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH near Mabank , Texas
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1984
Place of death Tyler , Texas