Carlos Bee

Carlos Bee ( born July 8, 1867 in Saltillo, Mexico, † April 20, 1932 in San Antonio, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1921 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Carlos Bee was the son of Hamilton Prioleau Bee (1822-1897), who had been during the Civil War general in the army of the Confederacy. After the war, he had gone with his family to Mexico from exile. It was also the great grandson of Thomas Bee Carlos Bee (1739-1812), a delegate to the Continental Congress. In 1874 he returned with his parents to the United States where they settled in San Antonio. He attended the public schools of his new home and then the Agricultural and Mechanical College. He then worked as a postman for the railway mail. After studying law and his 1893 was admitted to the bar, he began practicing in this profession in San Antonio. In the same year he became Federal commissioner (United States Commissioner) for the western part of the State of Texas.

From 1898 to 1905 Bee acted as prosecutor in the 37th Judicial District of the State of. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. In 1904 and 1908 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant. In 1904 he was also chairman of the Regional Congress of Democrats in Texas. From 1906 to 1908 he was a member of the school committee of the city of San Antonio; 1912-1914 he headed the school exclusion in Bexar County. From 1915 to 1919 he was a member of the Senate of Texas.

In the congressional elections of 1918, Bee was in the 14th electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Luther Slayden on March 4, 1919. Since he Republican Harry M. Wurzbach defeated in 1920, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1921. During this time, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, Carlos Bee operated again as a lawyer in San Antonio, where he died on 20 April 1932. He was buried at the Confederate Cemetery there.