Robert L. Doughton

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Robert L. Doughton (1942)

Robert Lee Doughton (born November 7, 1863 in Laurel Springs , Alleghany County , North Carolina , †  October 1, 1954 ) was an American politician . Between 1911 and 1953 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Doughton was the younger brother of Rufus A. Doughton (1857-1946), who was Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina from 1893 to 1897 . He attended public schools in his hometown and then worked in his hometown of Laurel Springs in agriculture, especially in the field of ranching. He also worked in the banking industry. Between 1903 and 1909 he served on the North Carolina Agriculture Committee. Doughton was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1908 and 1909 he was a member of the North Carolina Senate ; from 1909 to 1911 he was director of the state prison commission. From 1911 to 1936 he headed the Deposit & Savings Bank in North Wilkesboro .

In the 1910 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded Charles H. Cowles on March 4, 1911 . After 20 re-elections, he was able to complete 21 consecutive terms in Congress by January 3, 1953 . From 1933 he represented the ninth district of his state as the successor to Alfred L. Bulwinkle .

World War I , World War II, and the start of the Cold War fell during Doughton's time as Congressman . Between 1913 and 1951, amendments 16 to 22 were ratified. In the 1930s, the New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were discussed and enacted in Congress. Doughton was instrumental in getting the Social Security Act passed in 1935 . From 1913 to 1919 he was chairman of the Agriculture Committee; between 1933 and 1947 and again from 1949 to 1953 he headed the Committee on Ways and Means .

In 1952 Doughton declined to run again. After leaving the US House of Representatives, he returned to Laurel Springs, where he died on October 1, 1954, at the age of almost 91.

Web links

  • Robert L. Doughton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)