William L. Higgins

William L. Higgins, 1908

William Lincoln Higgins (born March 8, 1867 in Chesterfield , Hampshire County , Massachusetts , †  November 19, 1951 in Norwich , Connecticut ) was an American politician . Between 1933 and 1937 he represented the second constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Higgins attended public schools in his home in Massachusetts. He then studied medicine in New York City until 1890. After his approval as a doctor in the same year, he began to work in Willington (Connecticut) in his new profession. In 1891 he moved to South Coventry .

Higgins was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1905 and 1927 he sat several times as a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives ; from 1909 to 1911 he was a member of the State Senate . Between 1917 and 1932 he was a councilor in Coventry , from 1921 to 1932 he was a county commissioner in Tolland County . From 1928 to 1832, Higgins served as Secretary of State, the executive officer of the Connecticut state government. In 1928, 1932 and 1936 he attended the respective Republican National Conventions as a delegate .

In 1932 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the second district of Connecticut , where he succeeded Richard P. Freeman on March 4, 1933 . After re-election in 1934, he could remain in Congress until January 3, 1937 . It was then that many of the federal government's New Deal laws were passed in Congress under President Franklin D. Roosevelt . Higgins' party was rather critical of these measures. In the 1936 election, Higgins was defeated by Democrat William J. Fitzgerald .

After his time in the US House of Representatives, William Higgins withdrew from politics and went back to work as a doctor. He died in Norwich on November 19, 1951.

Web links

• William L. Higgins in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William L. Higgins in the database of Find a Grave (English)