Benjamin Jarrett

Benjamin Jarrett ( born July 18, 1881 in Sharon, Mercer County, Pennsylvania, † July 20, 1944 in Zanesville, Ohio ) was an American politician. Between 1937 and 1943 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Benjamin Jarrett attended the public schools in Wheatland. After that, he was employed as a clerk in the telegraph service and as a foreman in a steel factory. After a subsequent law degree in 1907 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Farrell to work in this profession. Between 1910 and 1930 he was the legal representative of the city. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. Between 1911 and 1913 he sat in the Senate of Pennsylvania. From 1919 to 1923 he belonged to the labor compensation committee ( Pennsylvania State Workmen's Compensation Board ) of his state at. At times, he was also chairman of the Republican district in Mercer County.

In the congressional elections of 1936, Jarrett was in the 20th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Denis J. Driscoll on January 3, 1937. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1943 three legislative periods. By 1941, there the last New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration were adopted, which Jarrett's party faced a rather negative. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.

In 1942, Jarrett opted not to run again. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. Benjamin Jarrett died on 20 July 1944 during a visit to Ohio and was buried in Sharon.