Vance Plauche

Vance Gabriel Plauche (born August 25, 1897 in Plaucheville , Avoyelles Parish , Louisiana , †  April 2, 1976 in Lake Charles , Louisiana) was an American politician . Between 1941 and 1943 he represented the state of Louisiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Vance Plauche attended both private and public schools. By 1914 he was at St. Francis Xaviers College . He then studied until 1918 at Loyola University in New Orleans . At the end of the First World War he was briefly used as a soldier in a hospital in Italy . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1918, he began working in Lake Charles in his new profession. Between 1928 and 1932 he was a city lawyer there. From 1933 to 1935 he served as the district advisor to the Home Owners' Loan Corporation . In 1940 he was a member of the Louisiana State Civil Service Commission , which dealt with public service matters.

Politically, Plauche was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1940 he was a delegate to their regional party convention in Louisiana. In the congressional elections of 1940 Plauche was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the seventh constituency of his state , where he succeeded René L. De Rouen on January 3, 1941 . Since he did not run again in 1942, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until January 3, 1943 , which was determined by the events of World War II .

After leaving the US House of Representatives, Vance Plauche returned to working as a lawyer in a large law firm in which he was involved. He was a member of the American Bar Association and several veterans' organizations. Plauche died on April 2, 1976 in Lake Charles. Since 1923 he was married to Marie Amire Bush. From the marriage comes a son, Vance William Plauche, born in 1924, who ran for his father's former seat in Congress as a Republican in 1968 , but was clearly defeated by the Democratic incumbent Edwin Edwards with only 15 percent of the vote .

Web links

• Vance Plauche in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Vance Plauche in the database of Find a Grave (English)