Thomas H. Eliot

Thomas H. Eliot

Thomas Hopkins Eliot (born June 14, 1907 in Cambridge , Massachusetts , †  October 14, 1991 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1941 and 1943 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Eliot was a great-grandson of Congressman Samuel Atkins Eliot (1798–1862). He attended the public schools of his home country and then studied at Harvard University until 1928 . In 1928 and 1929 he graduated from Emmanuel College at the University of Cambridge . After studying law at Harvard and his were made in 1933 admitted to the bar, he started in Buffalo ( New York to work) in this profession. From 1933 to 1935 he was a lawyer for the United States Department of Labor ; between 1935 and 1938 he served as legal advisor to the Social Security Committee. He also lectured at Harvard University in 1937 and 1938. Then he was until 1940 director of the regional branch of the Ministry of Labor for Wages and Salaries ( Wage and Hour Division ).

Politically, Eliot joined the Democratic Party . In 1938 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress . In the 1940 congressional elections , however, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of Massachusetts , where he succeeded Robert Luce on January 3, 1941 . Since he was no longer nominated for re-election in 1942, he could only serve one term in Congress until January 3, 1943 . During this time the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the entry of the United States into World War II occurred .

In 1943 Eliot was an advisor to the American Ambassador in London . He was also director of the British division of the Office of War Information . In 1944 Eliot applied unsuccessfully for his nomination for the congressional elections. Until 1945 he worked for the National War Labor Board and the Office of Strategic Services . Between 1945 and 1950 he was a lawyer in Boston . In the following years he also worked as a university professor for political science and constitutional law at various universities. In 1952 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . From 1961 to 1962 he was dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Washington University in St. Louis . There he was university chancellor until 1972. Between 1963 and 1967 he served as vice-chairman of the Commission on Intergovernmental Relations. From 1971 to 1977 he was President of the Salzburg Seminar for American Studies. After that he was a teacher at various schools in Massachusetts until 1985. Thomas Eliot died in Cambridge on October 14, 1991.

Web links

• Thomas H. Eliot in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas H. Eliot in the database of Find a Grave (English)