Claude Benton Hudspeth

Claude Benton Hudspeth ( born May 12, 1877 in Medina, Bandera County, Texas, † March 19, 1941 in San Antonio, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1931 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Claude Hudspeth attended the common schools and then completed an apprenticeship in the printing trade. In 1893 he moved to Ozona, where he published a newspaper for several years. There he worked as a cowboy. He then worked in the cattle trade and ranch business. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1902 and 1906 he was a member of the Texas House of Representatives; 1906 to 1918 he was a member of the State Senate. During this time he was four times its president. After studying law and his 1909 was admitted to the bar he began to El Paso to work in this profession. He was also a director of the company Texan Oil & Land Co.

In the congressional elections of 1918, Hudspeth was in the 16th electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeds Thomas L. Blanton took up on March 4, 1919, who moved into the 17th district. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1931 six legislative periods. In the years 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution were ratified. Since the end of 1929 the work of the Congress was under the impression the world economic crisis.

1930 renounced Claude Hudspeth on another candidacy. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he retired from politics. He spent his life in San Antonio, where he died on 19 March 1941.