Chester H. Gross

Chester Heilman Gross ( born October 13, 1888 at York County, Pennsylvania, † January 9, 1973 in York, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1941, and again from 1943 to 1949, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Chester United attended the public schools of his home and a business school in York and then studied at the Pennsylvania State College. In the following years he worked in agriculture. From 1918 to 1922 he was mayor of East Manchester. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. In the years 1929 and 1930 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. From 1931 to 1940 he directed the School Board in East Manchester. Between 1939 and 1940 he was director of the Association of school principals in Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1938, Gross was in the 22nd electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat Harry L. Haines on January 3, 1939. As he defeated his predecessor Haines in 1940, he was initially able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1941. During this time, the last New Deal legislation of the Roosevelt administration there were adopted, which Gross's party faced a rather negative.

According to the preliminary end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives to the United operated again in agriculture. In the 1942 elections, he was elected again in the 22nd district of his state in Congress, where he Haines replaced again on January 3, 1943. After two elections in the 21st district, he could spend up to January 3, 1949 three further terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. In its second phase as congressman from 1943, the end of the Second World War and the beginning of the Cold War fell. In 1948 he was not re-elected.

1954 and 1956 sought unsuccessfully to each major his party's nomination for the congressional these years. Otherwise, he worked in those years until his retirement on 31 December 1969 in the real estate industry. He died on January 9, 1973 in York.