Parke M. Banta

Parke M. Banta, 1953

Parke Monroe Banta (born November 21, 1891 in Berryman , Crawford County , Missouri , †  May 12, 1970 in Cape Girardeau , Missouri) was an American politician . Between 1947 and 1949 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Parke Banta attended his home public schools and William Jewell College in Liberty . After a subsequent law degree at the Law School of Northwestern University in Illinois and his admission to the bar in 1913, he began to work in this profession in Potosi . He was a Washington County attorney in 1917 and 1918 . Since April 1918 he participated as a soldier in the US Army in the final phase of the First World War. He rose to lieutenant. From 1925 Banta lived in Ironton , where he practiced as a lawyer again until 1941. There he was also a member of the school committee in 1932 and 1933. From 1941 to 1945, Banta served on the Missouri State Social Security Board.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party . In the 1946 congressional election he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded ASJ Carnahan on January 3, 1947 , whom he had defeated in the election. Since he lost to Carnahan in 1948, he could only serve one term in Congress until January 3, 1949 . This was shaped by the events of the Cold War .

In 1950, Parke Banta competed unsuccessfully for his return to Congress. Otherwise he worked again as a lawyer in Ironton. Between 1953 and 1961 he was an advisor to the Federal Department of Health in Washington. After that, he retired. He died on May 12, 1970 in Cape Girardeau.

Web links

• Parke M. Banta in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Parke M. Banta in the database of Find a Grave (English)