Lindley H. Hadley

Lindley H. Hadley

Lindley Hoag Hadley (born June 19, 1861 in Sylvania , Parke County , Indiana , †  November 1, 1948 in Wallingford , Connecticut ) was an American politician . Between 1915 and 1933 he represented the state of Washington in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Lindley Hadley attended his homeland public schools and Bloomingdale Academy . He then studied at Illinois Wesleyan University in Bloomington . Between 1884 and 1888 Hadley taught as a teacher in Rockville . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1889, he began working in his new profession in 1890 in what is now Bellingham in Washington State.

Politically, Hadley was a member of the Republican Party . In the 1914 congressional elections, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of his state , where he succeeded Albert Johnson on March 4, 1915 . After eight re-elections, he was able to complete nine consecutive terms in Congress by March 3, 1933 . During this time the First World War fell . In addition, the 18th , 19th and 20th amendments to the Constitution were passed.

In 1932 Hadley was one of many Republican Congressmen who, following the national trend, lost their seats in favor of the Democratic Party . The climax of this trend was the election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President. After leaving the US House of Representatives, Hadley worked as a lawyer in the federal capital Washington until 1940. After that, he retired. He died in Wallingford on November 1, 1948.

Web links

• Lindley H. Hadley in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Lindley H. Hadley in the database of Find a Grave (English)