Orville Zimmerman

Orville Zimmerman (born December 31, 1880 in Glen Allen , Bollinger County , Missouri , †  April 7, 1948 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1935 and 1948 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Orville Zimmerman attended the public schools of his home country, then the Mayfield-Smith Academy at Marble Hill and finally, until 1904, the Southeast Missouri State College at Cape Girardeau . Between 1904 and 1908 he directed Dexter High School . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Missouri at Columbia and his admission as a lawyer in 1911, he began to work in Kennett in this profession. During the First World War he served as a soldier in the US Army . Between 1928 and 1936, Zimmerman served on the Kennett City Education Committee. From 1933 until his death, he was also a board member of Southeast Missouri State College .

Politically, Zimmerman was a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1934 congressional elections he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the tenth constituency of Missouri, where he succeeded Frank H. Lee on January 3, 1935 . After six re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on April 7, 1948 . There, further New Deal laws were passed by the federal government by 1941 . Since December 7, 1941, the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , the work of Congress has also been shaped by the events of World War II and its aftermath. Orville Zimmerman died on April 7, 1948 in the federal capital Washington and was buried in Kennett. His member of parliament fell after a special election to his party friend Paul C. Jones .

Web links

• Orville Zimmerman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Orville Zimmerman in the database of Find a Grave (English)