Lindsay Carter Warren

Lindsay Carter Warren (1939)

Lindsay Carter Warren (born December 16, 1889 in Washington , North Carolina , †  December 28, 1976 there ) was an American politician . Between 1925 and 1940 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Lindsay Warren attended Bingham School in Asheville between 1903 and 1906 . He then studied until 1908 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . After a subsequent law degree at the same university and his admission as a lawyer in 1912, he began to work in Washington in this profession. Between 1912 and 1925, Warren was a prosecutor in Beaufort County . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

Between 1912 and 1925 Warren was Democratic Party Leader in Beaufort County. From 1917 to 1919 he was a member of the North Carolina Senate , of which he was acting president in 1919. That year he was also a member of a commission that reformed the laws of the state. In 1920 Warren was a member of another commission that dealt with compensation for industrial accidents. In 1923 he became a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives . In 1932 and 1940 he took part as a delegate at the Democratic National Conventions , at which Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for the presidential election. He also directed the North Carolina regional Democratic Party conventions in 1930 and 1934.

In the 1924 congressional election , Warren was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded Hallett Sydney Ward on March 4, 1925 . After seven re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on October 31, 1940 . From 1931 he was chairman of the Committee on Accounts . During Warren's tenure as Congressman, the 20th and 21st amendments were ratified in 1933 . Since 1933, most of the federal government's New Deal laws have been introduced and passed in Congress under President Roosevelt.

Warren came in late October 1940 by its mandate back after President Roosevelt, succeeding Fred H. Brown (Head of the Federal Audit Office Comptroller General ) had been appointed. He held this office until 1954. In 1959 and 1961, Lindsay Warren was once again a member of the North Carolina Senate. He died on December 28, 1976 in his native Washington.

Web links

• Lindsay Carter Warren in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Lindsay Carter Warren in the database of Find a Grave (English)