Lloyd Thurston

Lloyd Thurston

Lloyd Thurston (born March 27, 1880 in Osceola , Iowa , †  May 7, 1970 in Des Moines , Iowa) was an American politician . Between 1925 and 1939 he represented the state of Iowa in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Lloyd Thurston attended public schools in his home country. He then took part in the Spanish-American War of 1898 as a soldier in an infantry unit . He was deployed to the Philippines . He stayed there until November 1899. After studying law at the University of Iowa in Iowa City and being admitted to the bar in 1902, he began to work in Osceola in this profession. He was also a captain in the Iowa National Guard between 1902 and 1906. From 1906 to 1910, Thurston served as a district attorney in Clarke County . During the First World War he was a captain in the US Army . But he was not used in Europe. Politically, Thurston was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1920 and 1924 he was a member of the Iowa Senate .

In 1924 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Iowa . There he took over from Hiram Kinsman Evans on March 4, 1925 . After six re-elections, he was able to complete seven legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1939 . Since 1933, however, he represented the fifth district of Iowa as the successor to Cyrenus Cole . During this time, the 20th and 21st amendments to the constitution were discussed and passed. In the 1930s, Thurston supported at least some, but not all, of the Federal Government's New Deal laws under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . During his time in Congress, he served intermittently on the House Committee on Rules , the Budget Committee, and the Committee on Ways and Means .

In 1938, Lloyd Thurston renounced another candidacy for the House of Representatives. Instead, he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for the US Senate elections . He then retired from politics and returned to work as a lawyer. Thurston died in May 1970 at the age of 90 in Des Moines and was buried in Osceola.

Web links

• Lloyd Thurston in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Lloyd Thurston in the database of Find a Grave (English)