William D. Byron

William D. Byron

William Devereux Byron (born May 15, 1895 in Danville , Virginia , †  February 27, 1941 in Jonesboro , Georgia ) was an American politician . Between 1939 and 1941 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1899, William Byron came to Williamsport , Maryland with his parents , where he later attended public schools. He then studied at the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and the Pratt Institute in New York City . During the First World War he served in the US Army Air Corps , where he was promoted to lieutenant and instructor. Byron worked in the leather goods industry from 1919. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . From 1926 to 1930 he was Mayor of Williamsport - an office that his grandfather of the same name had already held. Between 1930 and 1934 he was a member of the Maryland Senate . He was then a member of the State Highways Management Commission in Maryland in 1935 and 1936.

In the 1938 congressional elections , Byron was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of Maryland , where he succeeded David John Lewis on January 3, 1939 . After being re-elected, he could remain in Congress until his death on February 27, 1941 . During this time, the federal government passed some New Deal laws. William Byron was the victim of a plane crash in Jonesboro near Atlanta . His widow Katharine Byron (1903-1976), the granddaughter of US Senator Louis E. McComas , was elected to succeed him. His son Goodloe (1929–1978) later became a congressman for Maryland.

Web links

• William D. Byron in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William D. Byron in the database of Find a Grave (English)