William Huston Natcher
William Huston Natcher (born September 11, 1909 in Bowling Green , Kentucky , † March 29, 1994 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1953 and 1994 he represented the state of Kentucky in the US House of Representatives .
Career
William Natcher attended his home public schools as well as Western Kentucky State College , which he graduated from in 1930. After a subsequent law degree at Ohio State University in Columbus and his license to practice as a lawyer in 1934, he began to work in Bowling Green in this profession. Politically, Natcher was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1936 and 1937 he served as the Federal conciliation commissioner for western Kentucky. From 1938 to 1950 he was a District Attorney in Warren County . In July 1940 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago , on which President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for a third term. Between 1941 and 1946, Natcher led his party's youth organization in Kentucky. However, he was used as a soldier in the United States Navy in World War II from 1942 to 1945 . From 1951 to 1953 he served as a prosecutor in the eighth judicial district of Kentucky.
After the death of MP Garrett L. Withers , Natcher was elected in the second constituency of Kentucky as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he took up his new mandate on August 1, 1953. Since he was confirmed in the following 20 elections, he could remain in Congress until his death in 1994 . Since 1993 he has chaired the Approval Committee . Natcher campaigned in Congress for the expansion of roads and highways. On the other hand, he blocked the financing of the expansion of the metro in the greater area of the federal capital Washington for years .
In his more than 40 years in Congress, he saw the civil rights movement , the Korean War , the Vietnam War , the Watergate affair and the passage of the last four amendments to the constitution . There were eight different US presidents during that time. William Natcher died on March 29, 1994 at the Bethesda Marine Hospital .
Web links
- William Huston Natcher in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
- William Huston Natcher in the database of Find a Grave (English)
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SURNAME | Natcher, William Huston |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1909 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Bowling Green , Kentucky |
DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 1994 |
Place of death | Bethesda , Maryland |