Virginia E. Jenckes

Virginia E. Jenckes (between 1933 and 1939)

Virginia Ellis Jenckes (born November 6, 1877 in Terre Haute , Indiana , †  January 9, 1975 there ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1939 she represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Virginia Ellis Somes, her maiden name, attended the public schools in her home country and began working in agriculture in 1912. Between 1926 and 1926 she served on the board of directors of the Wabash Maumee Valley Improvement Association . At the same time she began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party .

In the 1932 congressional elections , she was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Indiana , where she succeeded William Larrabee , who moved to the eleventh district, on March 4, 1933 . Their election victory was entirely in line with the federal trend at the time in favor of the Democratic Party. After two re-elections, she was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1939 . During this time, most of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . In 1933, the 18th Amendment from 1919 was repealed with the 21st amendment to the Constitution . It was about the prohibition law . In 1937, Virginia Jenckes was a delegate to the meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in Paris . In 1938 she was not re-elected.

After retiring from the US House of Representatives, Jenckes stayed in the federal capital for many years, working for the American Red Cross . She only returned to Terre Haute in the early 1970s. She died there on January 9, 1975 at the age of 97.

Web links

• Virginia E. Jenckes in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Virginia E. Jenckes in the database of Find a Grave (English)