Ralph E. Church

Ralph E. Church (1940)

Ralph Edwin Church (born May 5, 1883 in Catlin , Vermilion County , Illinois , †  March 21, 1950 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1935 and 1950 he twice represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ralph Church attended the public schools of his home country and then studied until 1907 at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor . After a subsequent law degree at Northwestern University in Evanston and his admission to the bar in 1909, he began to work in this profession in Chicago . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Republican Party . In 1916 he was elected to the Illinois House of Representatives. During the First World War he was in an officer training camp. Between 1917 and 1932 he was again a member of the state parliament. From 1938 to 1941 he was a member of the Navy Reserve.

In the 1934 congressional election , Church was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the tenth constituency of Illinois, where he succeeded James Simpson on January 3, 1935 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1941 . During this time, most of the Federal Government's New Deal laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt , which Church's party was rather hostile to. In 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were applied for the first time , according to which the legislative period of the Congress ends or begins on January 3rd.

In 1939 Church was a delegate at the inter-parliamentary conference in Oslo . The following year he decided not to run for the US House of Representatives. Instead, he ran unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the US Senate elections . In the 1942 election , Church was re-elected to Congress in the tenth district of his state, where he replaced George A. Paddock on January 3, 1943 , who had succeeded him two years earlier. After three re-elections, he was able to exercise his mandate until his death. This time was shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. Church also saw the start of the Cold War . Since 1949 he represented the 13th constituency of his state. Ralph Church died on March 21, 1950 during a meeting of the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments . After a special election, his mandate fell to his wife Marguerite .

Web links

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• Ralph E. Church in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Ralph E. Church in the database of Find a Grave (English)