Clay Stone Briggs

Clay Stone Briggs ( born January 8, 1876 in Galveston, Texas, † April 29, 1933 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1919 and 1933 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Clay Briggs attended both public and private schools. He then studied at the University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree from Yale University and his 1899 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Galveston in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1906 to 1908 Briggs sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Texas. Between 1909 and 1919 he was a judge in the Tenth Judicial District of the State of.

In the congressional elections of 1918, Briggs was selected in the seventh election district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Alexander W. Gregg on March 4, 1919. After seven elections he could remain until his death on April 29, 1933 in Congress. During this time, were ratified in 1919 and 1920, the 18th and the 19th Amendment. Since 1929 the work of the Congress was shaped by the events of the Great Depression.