Thomas B. Fugate

Thomas B. Fugate

Thomas Bacon Fugate (born April 10, 1899 in Tazewell , Claiborne County , Tennessee , †  September 22, 1980 in Ewing , Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1949 and 1953 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Fugate attended public schools in his home country. Until 1917 he studied at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville . He then continued his education until 1918 at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate . In 1921 he moved to Rose Hill , Virginia, where he worked in commerce. Between 1936 and 1940 he worked in the hardware store in Ewing . He also worked in agriculture and banking. In 1935 he became President of the People's Bank of Ewing . A year later he became a director of the Virginia-Tennessee Farm Bureau Inc .

Starting in 1938, was president of the company Fugate Ewing Livestock Co. Inc . At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . He served in the Virginia House of Representatives from 1928 to 1930 ; between 1937 and 1947 he was a member of the Virginia Welfare Committee. In July 1944 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , on which President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for the third re-election. In 1945 he was on a commission to revise the Virginia Constitution.

In the 1948 congressional election , Fugate was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Virginia , where he succeeded John W. Flannagan on January 3, 1949 . After being re-elected, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until January 3, 1953 . These were shaped by the events of the Korean War . In 1952 he renounced another candidacy. After his time in the US House of Representatives, Thomas Fugate worked as a banker and farmer. He died in Ewing on November 22, 1980.

Web links

• Thomas B. Fugate in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)