Melvin C. Snyder

Melvin Claude Snyder (born October 29, 1898 in Albright , West Virginia , †  August 5, 1972 in Kingwood , West Virginia) was an American politician . Between 1947 and 1949 he represented the second constituency of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Melvin Snyder attended the public schools in his home country and was a US Army soldier during World War I in 1918 . After the war he studied law at West Virginia University in Morgantown until 1923 . After his admission to the bar in the same year, he began to work in Kingwood in his new profession. Snyder was a member of the Republican Party and was elected Mayor of Kingwood in 1926. He then served as District Attorney in Preston County from 1929 until serving in the Second World War . Between 1941 and 1946 he rose to the rank of colonel in the US Army. In 1946 he worked for the US Department of the Interior for a short time .

In 1946 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second district of West Virginia , where he succeeded Democrat Jennings Randolph on January 3, 1947 . But since he lost to Harley Orrin Staggers in the next election in 1948 , Snyder could only serve one term in Congress until January 3, 1949 . In 1950 he tried unsuccessfully to regain his MP. Between 1953 and 1971, Snyder was a judge in the 18th District of West Virginia. He was a member of the Judicial Council of West Virginia and chairman of the Judicial Association in that state. Melvin Snyder died in Kingwood in August 1972 and was buried there.

Web links

• Melvin C. Snyder in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Melvin C. Snyder in the database of Find a Grave (English)