Tom A. Yon

Thomas Alva "Tom" Yon (born March 14, 1882 in Blountstown , Florida , †  February 16, 1971 in Tallahassee , Florida) was an American politician . Between 1927 and 1933 he represented the state of Florida in the US House of Representatives .

Career

At the age of five, Tom Yon and his parents moved to a farm in Jackson County . He attended the public schools of his new home and then the Lanier Southern Business College in Macon ( Georgia ). He later returned to his hometown of Blountstown, where he worked in commerce until 1906. Between 1906 and 1927, Yon was a traveling merchant in the Tallahassee area.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1920 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco , where James M. Cox was nominated as a presidential candidate. In the 1926 congressional elections , Yon was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Florida , where he succeeded John H. Smithwick on March 4, 1927 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1933 . These were determined by the events of the Great Depression since 1929 . Shortly before the end of his last term in office, the 20th amendment to the constitution was passed in Congress.

In 1932, Yon was no longer nominated for re-election by his party. Between 1933 and 1940 he worked for the Federal Ministry of Commerce . He then worked as an auditor at the Government Accountability Office until 1946 . Tom Yon retired in January 1946, taking care of his private real estate funds in Florida. He died in Tallahassee on February 16, 1971.

Web links

• Tom A. Yon in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Tom A. Yon in the database of Find a Grave (English)