Reid F. Murray

Reid Fred Murray (born October 16, 1887 in Ogdensburg , Waupaca County , Wisconsin , †  April 29, 1952 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1952 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Reid Murray attended public schools in his home country and then Manawa High School . He then studied until 1916 at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, the subject of agriculture. In the following years he mainly dealt with agricultural matters. Among other things, he was agricultural representative of the railways in Saint Paul until 1917 . He held the same position from 1917 to 1919 for Winnebago County and from 1919 to 1922 for the First National Bank in Oshkosh . He then taught in the years 1922 to 1927 at the agricultural faculty of the University of Wisconsin the subject of animal husbandry. He then worked in agriculture himself until 1939. At that time he traded in cattle and bought and sold farms as real estate. At that time he was living in Waupaca .

Politically, Murray was a member of the Republican Party . In the 1938 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the seventh constituency of Wisconsin , where he succeeded Gerald J. Boileau on January 3, 1939 . After six re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on April 29, 1952 . There, further New Deal laws of the federal government were passed up to 1941 . Since 1941 the work of the Congress has been shaped by the events of the Second World War and its aftermath. In 1951 the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution was passed.

Web links

• Reid F. Murray in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Reid F. Murray in the database of Find a Grave (English)