Wilburn Cartwright

Wilburn Cartwright

Wilburn Cartwright (born January 12, 1892 in Georgetown , Meigs County , Tennessee , † March 14, 1979 in Oklahoma City , Oklahoma ) was an American politician . Between 1927 and 1943 he represented the third constituency of the state of Oklahoma in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1903, Wilburn Cartwright and his parents moved to the Indian territory in what is now Oklahoma. He attended the public schools in Wapanucka and Ada and the State Teachers College in Durant . Between 1914 and 1922 Cartwright worked as a teacher at various schools in Oklahoma.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . From 1914 to 1918 he was a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1917, Cartwright also worked as a lawyer in the city of McAlester . During the First World War he was a soldier in a US Army training camp . Between 1918 and 1922 he was a member of the Oklahoma Senate , from 1922 to 1926 he was a school councilor in cancer .

After he had run unsuccessfully for a seat in Congress in 1922 and 1924 , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in 1926 in the Third District of Oklahoma . There he replaced Charles D. Carter on March 4, 1927 . After he was confirmed in the following seven elections, Cartwright could remain in Congress until January 3, 1943. There he was temporarily chairman of the Roads Committee ( Committee on Roads ). For the elections of 1942 he was no longer nominated by his party.

After his time in Congress, he took part in the Second World War as a major in the army , in which he served in Africa and Europe. He was also wounded in the process. After his return to the United States he worked in 1945 in Fort Custer ( Michigan ) as a teacher. He was then employed by the administration of the War Veterans Office in Muskogee, Oklahoma, until 1946 . Between 1946 and 1950, Wilburn Cartwright served as Secretary of State as an executive officer of the state government of Oklahoma. From 1950 to 1954 he was head of the State Auditor . In 1954, 1960 and 1966 he was elected a member of the State Corporation Commission , losing the 1962 area code for lieutenant governor of the state with 37% to Leo Winters . Cartwright died in Oklahoma City in 1979 and was buried in Norman .

Web links

• Wilburn Cartwright in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Wilburn Cartwright in the database of Find a Grave (English)