Samuel C. Major

Samuel C. Major

Samuel Collier Major (born July 2, 1869 in Fayette , Howard County , Missouri , †  July 28, 1931 there ) was an American politician . Between 1919 and 1931 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives several times .

Career

Samuel Major attended his home public schools and Central College in Fayetteville . He then studied until 1888 at the St. James Military Academy in Macon . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1890, he began to work in this profession in Fayette. From 1892 he was a two-term prosecutor in Howard County.

Politically, Major was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1907 and 1911 he was a member of the Missouri Senate . In 1916 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress . In the elections of 1918 he was then elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the seventh constituency of Missouri , where he succeeded Courtney W. Hamlin on March 4, 1919 . Since he was defeated by the Republican Roscoe C. Patterson in 1920 , he was initially only able to serve one term in Congress until March 3, 1921 . During this time, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution came into force, which introduced women's suffrage nationwide.

After his temporary departure from Congress, Collier practiced law again. In the elections of 1922 he was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in the seventh district of his state, where he replaced Patterson on March 4, 1923. After two re-elections, he was able to spend three more terms in Congress until March 3, 1929. In 1928 he was defeated by the Republican John William Palmer , whose mandate he took over again on March 4, 1931 after another election victory in 1930. However, he could no longer exercise this until the regular end of the legislative period on March 3, 1933, since he died on July 28, 1931. His remaining tenure ended after a special election by Robert Davis Johnson .

Web links

• Samuel C. Major in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Samuel C. Major in the database of Find a Grave (English)