Denver S. Church

Denver Samuel Church ( born December 11, 1862 in Folsom City, California, † February 21, 1952 in Fresno, California ) was an American politician. Between 1913 and 1919, and again from 1933 to 1935, he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Denver Church attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1885, Healdsburg College. After a subsequent law degree in 1893 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working in Fresno in this profession. Between 1907 and 1913 he was district attorney in Fresno County. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1916 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis, was nominated to the president Woodrow Wilson for re-election. In the congressional elections of 1912 Church was in the seventh constituency of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Stephens on March 4, 1913. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1919 three legislative periods. In this time of the First World War fell. In 1918 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Church practiced as a lawyer again. Between 1924 and 1930 he was a judge in Fresno County. In the congressional elections of 1932, Church was elected to Congress again in the ninth district of his state, where he replaced William E. Evans on March 4, 1933. Since he resigned in 1934 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1935. During this time the first of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. After his final retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives to Denver Church operated again as a lawyer. He died on February 21, 1952 in Fresno at the age of 89 years.