Ranulf Compton

CH Ranulf Compton (born September 16, 1878 in Poe , Allen County , Indiana , †  January 26, 1974 in Madison , Connecticut ) was an American politician . Between 1943 and 1945 he represented the third constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ranulf Compton attended the public schools in Indianapolis and then until 1898 the Howe Military School in Howe (Indiana). He then studied at Harvard University . In the following years he worked in the states of New York and Connecticut in finance and banking. Between 1912 and 1916 he was an infantry captain in the New York National Guard . Between July 1916 and March 1918 he held the same rank in the US Army . Afterwards he was actively involved in the First World War as a major in a tank unit . Compton remained a member of the Army until August 1919. For his services during the war he was awarded the Purple Heart and the Order of the Legion of Honor.

In 1920 Compton became the military adviser to New York Governor Nathan Lewis Miller . In 1921 and 1922, he was Deputy Secretary of State for the New York State Government. Then Compton worked from 1923 to 1929 as secretary and treasurer of the organization for the expansion of the Hudson River ( Hudson River Regulating District ) in Albany .

Compton was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1940 and 1941 he was an advisor to Connecticut Governor Raymond E. Baldwin . In 1942 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third district of Connecticut , where he succeeded Democrat James A. Shanley on January 3, 1943 , whom he had defeated in the election. But since he was defeated by the Democrat James P. Geelan in 1944 , Compton could only spend one term in Congress until January 3, 1945 , which was determined by the events of World War II .

Between 1945 and 1968 Compton was president and owner of the South Jersey Broadcasting Company . He spent his old age in Madison, where he died in January 1974 at the age of 95.

Web links

• Ranulf Compton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Ranulf Compton in the database of Find a Grave (English)