Winfield K. Denton

Winfield K. Denton

Winfield Kirkpatrick Denton (born October 28, 1896 in Evansville , Indiana , †  November 2, 1971 there ) was an American politician . Between 1945 and 1966 he twice represented the state of Indiana in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Winfield Denton was the son of Congressman George K. Denton (1864-1926). He attended the public schools of his home country and then studied until 1919 at DePauw University in Greencastle . In 1919, shortly after the end of World War I, he was a soldier in the US Army Air Corps . After a subsequent law degree at Harvard University and his admission as a lawyer in 1922, he began to work in this profession. Between 1932 and 1936 he served as the district attorney in Vanderburgh County .

Politically, Denton was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1937 and 1942 he was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives . At times he heads the democratic group there. During the Second World War he served in the US Army. In the 1948 congressional election , Denton was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of Indiana , where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 1949. After being re-elected, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until January 3, 1953 . These were shaped by the events of the Cold War .

In 1952, Winfield Denton was not confirmed. Between 1952 and 1964 he took part as a delegate at all Democratic National Conventions . In the elections of 1954 he was re-elected to Congress in the eighth district of his state, where he replaced D. Bailey Merrill on January 3, 1955 , who had ousted him two years earlier. After five re-elections, he could remain in the US House of Representatives until his resignation on December 30, 1966. During the legislative period from 1963 to 1965 he represented the first district of his state. The Vietnam War began during his second phase as Congressman between 1955 and 1966 . The civil rights movement also dominated American domestic politics.

After not being re-elected in the November 1966 elections, he resigned on December 30, 1966, a few days before the regular end of the legislative period on January 3, 1967. Then he withdrew from politics. Winfield Denton died on November 2, 1971 in his native Evansville, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Winfield K. Denton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Winfield K. Denton in the database of Find a Grave (English)