Theodore G. Croft

Theodore Gaillard Croft (born November 26, 1874 in Aiken , Aiken County , South Carolina , †  March 23, 1920 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1904 and 1905 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Theodore Croft was the son of Congressman George W. Croft (1846-1904). He attended the public schools of his home country and then until 1895 the Bethel Military Academy in Warrenton ( Virginia ). After a subsequent law degree at the University of South Carolina at Columbia and his admission as a lawyer in 1897, he began to work in Aiken in his new profession.

Croft was a member of the Democratic Party . After his father's death in March 1904, he was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC when the by-election was due in the second constituency of South Carolina . There he took up his new mandate on May 17, 1904. Since he refused to run again in the regular elections of 1904, Croft was only able to end his father's current term in Congress until March 3, 1905 .

As a result, Theodore Croft worked again as a lawyer. In 1907 and 1908 he was a member of the House of Representatives from South Carolina ; from 1909 to 1912 he was a member of the State Senate . Shortly before the end of the First World War , he joined the US Army on October 29, 1918 . He was sent to a training camp and remained there until December 5 of the same year. He then worked again as a lawyer until his death on March 23, 1920.

Web links

• Theodore G. Croft in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Theodore G. Croft in the database of Find a Grave (English)