Mell G. Underwood

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Mell G. Underwood

Mell Gilbert Underwood (born January 30, 1892 in Rose Farm , Morgan County , Ohio , †  March 8, 1972 in New Lexington , Ohio) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1923 and 1936 he represented the state of Ohio in the US House of Representatives ; then he became a federal judge .

Career

Mell Underwood attended public schools in his home country. In 1911 he graduated from New Lexington High School . In the following years he worked as a teacher in New Lexington. After studying law at Ohio State University in Columbus and being admitted to the bar in 1915, he began working in this profession in New Lexington. Between 1917 and 1921 he was a prosecutor in Perry County . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1920 he ran for the US House of Representatives without success.

In the congressional elections of 1922 Underwood was then elected in the eleventh constituency of Ohio to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Republican Edwin D. Ricketts on March 4, 1923 . After six re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on April 10, 1936 . In this time the early 1930s came the Great Depression . Since 1933, the first of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . In 1935 the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were applied for the first time , according to which the legislative period of the Congress ends or begins on January 3rd.

From 1931 to 1936, Underwood was chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions . His resignation came after his appointment as a judge at the federal district court for the southern part of the state of Ohio to succeed the late Benson W. Hough . He held this office until he retired on June 30, 1967. He died on March 8, 1972 on his farm near New Lexington.

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SURNAME Underwood, Mell G.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Underwood, Mell Gilbert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Rose Farm , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 1972
Place of death near New Lexington , Ohio