Ralph Hunter Daughton

Ralph Hunter Daughton

Ralph Hunter Daughton (born September 23, 1885 in Washington, DC , †  December 22, 1958 in Norfolk , Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1944 and 1947 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ralph Daughton attended both public and private schools in Washington and Prince George County , Maryland . After a subsequent law degree at the National University in Washington and his admission to the bar in 1907, he began to work in this profession in the federal capital. From 1910 he worked as an investigator for what was then the Bureau of Investigation (BI), from which the FBI would later emerge. In 1912 he moved to Norfolk, where he took over the direction of the BI for the states of Virginia, North Carolina and West Virginia and parts of Maryland. He exercised this function until after the end of the First World War ; then he practiced as a private lawyer in Norfolk. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1933 and 1940 he was a member of the Virginia House of Representatives ; from 1940 to 1944 he was a member of the State Senate . In 1938 he became president of the Piedmont Baseball League for the next nine years .

After the resignation of MP Winder R. Harris , Daughton was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington at the by-election due for the second seat of Virginia, where he took up his new mandate on November 7, 1944. After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1947 . During this time the Second World War ended . In 1947 he was no longer nominated for re-election by his party. After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Ralph Daughton returned to work as a lawyer. He died in Norfolk on December 22, 1958.

Web links

• Ralph Hunter Daughton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Ralph Hunter Daughton in the database of Find a Grave (English)