Sidney R. Yates

Sidney R. Yates

Sidney Richard Yates (born August 27, 1909 in Chicago , Illinois , †  October 5, 2000 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1949 and 1963 and again between 1965 and 1999 he represented the state of Illinois in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Sidney Yates attended Lake View High School in Chicago until 1928 and then studied at the University of Chicago until 1931 . After a subsequent law degree at the same university and his admission to the bar in 1933, he began to work in this profession in Chicago. In the 1930s he was an attorney for various government institutions in Illinois. During the Second World War he served in the US Navy from 1944 to 1946 . Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party .

In the 1948 congressional elections , Yates was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Illinois , where he succeeded Republican Robert Twyman on January 3, 1949 . After six re-elections, he was able to complete seven legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1963 . The Cold War , the Korean War and, domestically, the beginning of the civil rights movement fell during this period . In 1962, Yates renounced in favor of a then unsuccessful application for a seat in the US Senate on another candidacy for the US House of Representatives.

In 1963 and 1964, Yates was the American envoy to the United Nations Trusteeship Council ( Trusteeship Council of the United Nations ). In the congressional elections of 1964 he was re-elected to Congress in the ninth district of his state, where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 1965. After 16 re-elections, he was able to exercise this mandate until January 3, 1999. During this time, the Vietnam War , the end of the civil rights movement and, in 1974, the Watergate affair took place .

In 1998, Sidney Yates declined to run again. He died on October 5, 2000 in the federal capital Washington.

Web links

• Sidney R. Yates in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Sidney R. Yates in the database of Find a Grave (English)