Patrick H. Drewry

Patrick H. Drewry

Patrick Henry Drewry (born May 24, 1875 in Petersburg , Virginia , †  December 21, 1947 there ) was an American politician . Between 1920 and 1947 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Patrick Drewry attended public schools in his home country including Petersburg High School and McCabe's University School . In 1896 he graduated from Randolph-Macon College in Ashland . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and his admission to the bar in 1901, he began to work in this profession in Petersburg. There he also became director of the Petersburg Savings & American Trust Co. At the same time he pursued a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1912 and 1920 he was a member of the Virginia Senate . In 1912, 1916, 1920 and 1924 he was a delegate at the party congresses of the Democrats at the state level. In June 1916 he also took part in the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis , on which President Woodrow Wilson was nominated for re-election. From 1916 to 1918, Drewry served as chairman of the Economy and Efficiency Commission of Virginia . He was also chairman of his state's revision committee from 1916 to 1920.

After the death of MP Walter Allen Watson , Drewry was elected to the House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the due by-election for the fourth seat of Virginia , where he took up his new mandate on April 27, 1920. After 13 re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death in December 1947 . Between 1923 and 1927 he was a member of the Democratic National Congressional Committee . In 1925 he was a member of the governing body of the US Naval Academy in Annapolis . During Drewry's time as Congressman, the 19th , 20th, and 21st amendments were ratified. Between 1933 and 1941, the New Deal laws of the federal government under Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed in Congress. Since 1941, the work of Congress was also shaped by the events of World War II and its aftermath.

Web links

• Patrick H. Drewry in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Patrick H. Drewry in the database of Find a Grave (English)