Raymond Bartlett Stevens

Raymond Bartlett Stevens

Raymond Bartlett Stevens (born June 18, 1874 in Binghamton , New York , †  May 18, 1942 in Indianapolis , Indiana ) was an American politician . Between 1913 and 1915 he represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1876, at the age of two, Stevens came to Lisbon in Grafton County in New Hamphire with his parents . There he attended public schools. He then studied law at Harvard University, among other things. After his admission to the bar in 1899, he began practicing his new profession in Lisbon. Stevens became a member of the Democratic Party . He was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1909, 1911, 1913 and 1923 . In 1912 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the New Hampshire constitution.

In 1912, Stevens was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the Second Constituency of New Hampshire . There he took over on March 4, 1913, succeeding Republican Frank Dunklee Currier , whom he had defeated in the election. Since he renounced another candidacy for the House of Representatives in 1914, he could only complete one term in Congress until March 3, 1915 . Instead, Stevens ran unsuccessfully for a seat in the US Senate .

Between 1915 and 1917 he was a special advisor to the Federal Trade Commission . During the First World War , in 1917 and 1918, he was an American representative in an Allied Maritime Transport Council that dealt with maritime transport. Between 1917 and 1920 he was also chairman of a federal committee that also dealt with the transportation of goods (United States Shipping Board) . In 1920 and 1924 Stevens was a delegate to the respective Democratic National Conventions . From 1926 to 1935 he was advisor to the King of Siam on foreign policy issues. He interrupted this activity in 1933 for six months, during which he was again a member of the Federal Trade Commission. From 1935 until his death in 1942 he was again a member of this commission, which he chaired from 1937. Raymond Stevens died on May 18, 1942 in Indianapolis and was buried in Landaff, New Hampshire.

Web links

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• Raymond Bartlett Stevens in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Raymond Bartlett Stevens in the database of Find a Grave (English)