Virgil Chapman

Virgil Munday Chapman (born March 15, 1895 in Middleton , Simpson County , Kentucky , † March 8, 1951 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American politician ( Democratic Party ) who represented the state of Kentucky in both chambers of Congress .

Life

After attending school in Franklin , Virgil Chapman studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1917; the following year he graduated from the University of Kentucky at Lexington . He first worked as a lawyer in Irvine , where he held the office of public prosecutor from 1918 to 1920, before moving to Paris . Between 1921 and 1923 he helped as a lawyer to bring together the tobacco growers from Kentucky and the surrounding states in marketing cooperatives. Virgil Chapman had a daughter with his wife Mary.

politics

In 1924, the Democrat Chapman was elected to the US House of Representatives, where he initially spent two terms in office. In the 1928 election, when Republican Herbert Hoover became US President and his party won a landslide victory, Chapman lost his seat. However, two years later he prevailed against Republican Robert E. Lee Blackburn , who had previously defeated him, and then remained for four more years as a representative of the Seventh District of Kentucky in the House of Representatives. In 1935 he moved to the sixth electoral district as a candidate, won the seat there as well and defended it until 1949.

In the election to the US Senate in 1948, Virgil Chapman defeated the Republican incumbent John Sherman Cooper . His successor in the House of Representatives was Thomas R. Underwood . However, Chapman died on March 8, 1951 at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda of the consequences of a car accident that he had recently suffered in Washington, DC . Thomas Underwood also took over his mandate in the Senate. This makes Virgil Chapman one of the six members of Congress who were succeeded by the same people in both chambers.

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SURNAME	Chapman, Virgil
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Chapman, Virgil Munday (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician (Democratic Party)
DATE OF BIRTH	March 15, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH	Middleton , Simpson County , Kentucky
DATE OF DEATH	March 8, 1951
Place of death	Bethesda , Maryland