W. host Courtney

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William Wirt Courtney (born September 7, 1889 in Franklin , Tennessee , †  April 6, 1961 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1949 he represented the state of Tennessee in the US House of Representatives .

Career

W. Wirt Courtney attended the Battle Ground Academy in his hometown of Franklin until 1907 . He then studied at Vanderbilt University in Nashville and at the Sorbonne in the French capital Paris . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1911, he began to work in his new profession in Franklin. Between 1915 and 1917 he was also the legal representative of his hometown. During the First World War he was a soldier in an infantry unit of the US Army from 1917 to 1919 . He rose to the rank of first lieutenant.

After the war, Courtney continued his legal practice in Franklin. In 1932 he became an adjutant general in the state government of Tennessee. From 1933 he held the rank of brigadier general in the national guard of his state. Courtney was a judge in the 17th Judicial District of Tennessee from 1933 to 1939. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party .

After the death of Representative Clarence W. Turner , Courtney was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC when he was due by-election for the sixth seat of Tennessee , where he took up his new mandate on May 11, 1939. After four re-elections, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1949 . Since 1943 he represented there as the successor to Herron C. Pearson the seventh district of his state. Further New Deal laws of the federal government were passed in Congress by 1941 . Then the events of the Second World War and its immediate consequences were in the foreground.

In 1948, host Courtney was not nominated for re-election by his party. In the following years he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on April 6, 1961 in his native Franklin.

Web links

  • W. Wirt Courtney in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Courtney, W. Host
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Courtney, William Wirt (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 7, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Franklin , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH April 6, 1961
Place of death Franklin , Tennessee