Otis Wingo

Otis Wingo (1920)

Otis Theodore Wingo (born June 18, 1877 in Weakley County , Tennessee , † October 21, 1930 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1913 and 1930 he represented the fourth constituency of the state of Arkansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After elementary school, Otis Wingo attended Bethel College in McKenzie, Tennessee and McFerrin College in Martin , also in Tennessee. He then studied at Valparaiso University in Indiana . Subsequently he worked as a teacher and studied law. After his admission to the bar in 1900, he began to work in his new profession in De Queen in Sevier County in Arkansas.

Politically, Wingo was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1907 and 1909 he was a member of the Arkansas Senate . In the congressional election of 1912 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth district of Arkansas , where he replaced William B. Cravens on March 4, 1913 . After a total of eight re-elections, he remained in Congress until his death on October 21, 1930 . During this time, among other things, the First World War , the introduction of women's suffrage at the federal level and the Prohibition Act . Otis Wingo was buried in Washington's Rock Creek Cemetery. After a by-election, his mandate went to his widow Effiegene , who held it between November 4, 1930 and March 3, 1933.

Web links

• Otis Wingo in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Otis Wingo in the database of Find a Grave (English)