William Huston Natcher

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)