Clifton A. Woodrum

Clifton Alexander Woodrum (* April 27, 1887 in Roanoke, Virginia; † October 6, 1950 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1945 he represented the state of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Clifton Woodrum attended the common schools and studied medicine for it. He then worked as a pharmacist in Roanoke. After studying law at Washington and Lee University in Lexington and his 1908 was admitted to the bar he began to work in his birthplace in this profession. Between 1917 and 1919, he served there as a prosecutor and as a judge until 1922. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1922 Woodrum was selected in the sixth constituency of Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of James P. Woods on March 4, 1923. After eleven re- election, he could remain until his resignation on December 31, 1945 in Congress. Since 1933, the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1935, the provisions of the 20th Amendment to the Constitution were first applied, after which the term of the Congress ends or begins on January 3. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.

Woodrums resignation was after his appointment as president of the company American Plant Food Council Inc. He died on 6 October 1950 in the German capital Washington.