Sam D. McReynolds

Sam D. McReynolds (1936)

Samuel Davis "Sam" McReynolds (born April 16, 1872 in Pikeville , Bledsoe County , Tennessee , †  July 11, 1939 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1923 and 1939 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Sam McReynolds attended his home public schools and People's College in Pikeville. He then studied at Cumberland University in Lebanon . After studying law and his admission as a lawyer in 1893, he began to work in Pikeville in his new profession. In 1894 and 1896, McReynolds was assistant district attorney in Tennessee's Sixth District. In 1896 he moved to Chattanooga where he worked as a lawyer. Between 1903 and 1923 he served as a judge at the criminal court in the sixth district court in his home state.

Politically, McReynolds was a member of the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1922 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the third constituency of Tennessee, where he succeeded Joseph Edgar Brown on March 4, 1923 . After eight re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on July 11, 1939 . From 1931 he was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. In 1933, the 20th and 21st amendments were ratified in Congress. Since 1933, most of the Federal Government's New Deal laws were passed there under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . In 1933, Sam McReynolds was a delegate at an international monetary and economic conference in the British capital, London .

Web links

• Sam D. McReynolds in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Sam D. McReynolds in the database of Find a Grave (English)